Alexander Alberro lecture

The Mildred Lame Kemper Art Museum is pleased to welcome Alexander Alberro to campus on April 1 and 2, 2020. Alberro is the Virginia Bloedel Wright Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History at Barnard College and author of Abstraction in Reverse: The Reconfigured Spectator in Mid-Twentieth Century Latin American Art (University of Chicago Press, 2017), which examines the ways in which artists such as Jesús Soto and Julio Le Parc, among others, attempted to reimagine the relationship of art to its public through active participation. 

In coordination with the exhibition Multiplied: Edition MAT and the Transformable Work of Art, 1959-1965, now on view at the Kemper Art Museum, he will give a lecture titled “Activating the Spectator by Reshaping the Aesthetic Field: Op,  Kinetic, and Participatory Art, 1959-1965.” In his lecture he will explore artistic practices in late 1950s and early 1960s in Latin America that incorporated mathematics, science, and technology in order to generate viewer interaction with artworks. https://www.kemperartmuseum.wustl.edu/events/lectures/13637.

Prof. Alberro’s Barnard/Columbia website offers a detailed overview of his activities http://www.columbia.edu/cu/arthistory/faculty/Alberro.html

Those interested in participating can RSVP to Meredith Lehman, Head of Museum Education at lehman.meredith@wustl.edu