Harpo Foundation is pleased to provide project support for an exhibition of historical works—sculpture, film, and video—and a new performance by Raphael Montanez Ortiz (b. New York, 1934). The exhibition will revisit the artist’s dynamic practice—which is drawn from Fluxus, music, ritual, shamanism, and metaphysics—to resituate his importance within the present discourse around technology, communication, mass media, and art-making.
(Excerpt and images below selected from grant proposal. All works are copyright of the artist.)
Still from “Newsreel” 16 mm Film cut up and re-edited by chance operation 1958 “Piano Destruction” Concert at Labor in Mexico City, 2015 “Archaeological Find, Number 9” Wood, steel, plastic glues, rope, fabric and horse hair Overall: 76 3/4 × 66 3/4 × 22 in. 1964