Exhibition^3: Documenta 5, Harald Szeemann, The Artists February 24 2015, 6:00 pm - March 20 2015, 4:00 pm Frick Fine Arts Building, University Art Gallery

Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM

The gallery will be closed during Spring Break, between March 9th and 13th.

Exhibition^3: Documenta 5, Harald Szeemann, The Artists is built around a loaned exhibit from the Independent Curators International and will be curated by Professor Terence Smith, Gallery Curator Isabelle Chartier, and the University of Pittsburgh Museum Studies Exhibition Seminar students. Szeemann’s artistic direction of Documenta 5, held in 1972 in Kassel Germany, is explored through 40 items and associated documents that constitute Harald Szeemann: Documenta 5, curated by David Platzker. This will be supplemented with two carefully curated rooms, one delving into the career of Harald Szeemann, and the second exhibiting a collection of books, catalogs, and other documentary material, created at the time of Documenta 5, by or about artists involved in the original 1972 exhibition.

Exhibition^3 will immerse the visitor in the experience that was Documenta 5 in 1972; in the curatorial imagination of Harald Szeemann as it developed during his career; and in the interrogations undertaken by the artists who transformed art during the 1960s and 1970s. Immerse yourself in the hyper reality of Documenta 5, meet the artists who filled its halls, and delve into the career of the most successful and innovative curator of all time, Harald Szeemann.

The exhibition will open on February 24th, 2015 at the University Art Gallery in the Frick Fine Arts building at the University of Pittsburgh, and will remain available to the public between 10 am and 4 pm, Monday through Friday, until its close on March 20th. Arrangements can be made by appointment.

For additional information, contact uag@pitt.edu or 412-648-2423.
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The Museum Studies Exhibition Seminar is made possible with the generous support of the Fine Foundation and the Office for Undergraduate Studies of the Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh.

Harald Szeemann: Documenta 5 is circulated by Independent Curators International (ICI), New York. This exhibition has been curated by David Platzker. The exhibition is made possible, in part, by a grant from the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation; the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; the ICI Board of Trustees, and ICI Benefactors Barbara and John Robinson.