"Sonic Youth" Etc.: Sensational Fix

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Five by Five - Contemporary Artists on Contemporary Art - Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Destroy Design: Art Contemporain et/ou Design, Collection du FRAC Nord Pas De Calais Musee de Design et D'Arts Appliques Contmporains, Lausanne, Suisse Birth Of The Cool – Amerikanische Malerei Von Georgia O’keeffe Bis Christopher Wool - Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg Before she split she actually touched my arm (!) and said, 'See you later.' She moved into a raw railway apartment on Eldridge Street below Grand Street. The artist Dan Graham lived upstairs and had acquired the place for her. She invited me over one evening and I played this beat up guitar she had. I knew the guitar because it belonged to an associate of the Coachmen gang who left it at Jenny Holzer's loft where Kim had stayed and somehow it was passed on to her. All she had was the guitar and a foam rubber cushion for sleeping. That night was the first time we kissed." Exhibition: Most people probably know Sonic Youth (Kim Gordon, Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo, and Steve Shelley) as an experimental guitar band, and to a lesser extent as the multidisciplinary cultural protagonists they have been ever since the collective surfaced in 1981. From day one, Sonic Youth has been exploring and mapping unknown cultural territories through their activities as a band and as four individual musicians, visual artists or cultural entrepreneurs, each member with his or her specific ties to and within the international cultural scene. Through collaborations with musicians, visual artists, filmmakers, fashion designers, writers and other equally creative spirits, Sonic Youth expanded their artistic potential, which by now – 27 years later – could be defined as a true Sonic Universe.

In the early eighties, singer Karen Carpenter from dreamy LA duo The Carpenters passed away from complications due to anorexia. Kim Gordon, who was a huge fan of The Carpenters, then penned an open letter to the singer. “Through the years of The Carpenters’ TV specials I saw you change from the Innocent Oreo-cookie-and-milk-eyed girl next door to hollowed eyes and a lank body adrift on a candy-coloured stage set,” she wrote in the letter, which was printed in the biography Sonic Youth: Sensational Fix. “You and Richard, by the end, looked drugged – there’s so little energy. The words come out of the your mouth but your eyes say other things.” Pilar Perez, ed., The Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego 1997 Birth of the Cool: American Painting From Georgia O'Keeffe to Christopher Wool Drawn In the ‘90’s - Illingworth Kerr Gallery at Alberta College of Art, Calgary, AB 1992 Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York, NY Georg Herold, Albert Oehlen, Christopher Wool - The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Power, Corruption and Lies - Andrew Roth Gallery, New York, NY 2003 Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York, NY A Wild Night and a New Road - Altman Siegel Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2008 Museu Serralves - Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto Kunsthaus Zürich 1997 American Realities, Views from Abroad, European Perspectives on American Art 3 When Kim Gordon interviewed LL. Cool J for Spin in 1989, she found herself in an awkward clash of cultures. “The guy has to have control over his woman,” Cool J told vocal feminist Kim Gordon, who swiftly asked whether he thought there were any female sex symbols he could relate to. In the same interview, he also claimed he’d never heard of Iggy Pop, that Madonna didn’t turn him on and that he just wanted to crush everything in his path.

The Sensational Fix book was released to correspond with a travelling exhibit of various SY memorabilia/historic documents. It is an incredible collection full of all types of sonic memories and highly recommended for the hardcore fan. It comes with 2 7"s, with each member contributing one side of music. I'll just steal sonicyouth.com's write-up on the book/exhibit: Wool’s work has been exhibited at numerous institutions around the world, including the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, CA; the Gesellschaft für Moderne Kunst am Museum Ludwig in Köln, Germany; the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris in Paris, France; and at the Guggenheim in New York, NY. In addition, the art market for Wool’s work has experienced substantial growth over the past decade, with an increasing number of lots offered at auction. Collectors´ Favorites - Sammeln in Wien Teil 1 - Galerie nächst St. Stephan - Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna 2001 Wiener Secession, Vienna Fighting Words: Voices of Dissent: Social, Political and Environmental Statements - Fisher Landau Center For Art, New York, NY 2007 Pattern Paintings, 1987–2000 - Skarstedt Fine Art, New York, NYThe Painting Factory: Abstraction After Andy Warhol, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA. Recent Acquisitions from the Rivendell Collection - Hessel Museum of Art & Center for Curatorial Studies Galleries at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY Painted Word/Written Image - Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA 1991 Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York, NY Mythic Proportions - Painting in the 1980’s - Museum of Contemporary Art - North Miami (MOCA), Miami, FL Milwaukee Art Museum 1995 Shut Up Stupid I'm Working—The Complete Letters and Poems (a.k.a. The Peter Problem)

The Francois Pinault Collection - A Post-Pop selection - Palazzo Grassi - Francois Pinault Foundation, Venice Sonic Youth etc.: Sensational Fix, una producción de Museion de Bolzano (Italia) y Life de Saint Nazaire (Francia) que yaha visitado laKunsthalle Dusseldorf y elMalmö Konsthall, explora temas como la rebelión adolescente, el género, la fama, la sexualidad y la moda, y constituye un cuestionamiento de las prácticas culturales dominantes, un encuentro entre lo underground y la cultura oficial de las cuatro últimas décadas. Tillbaka till åttiotalet — redan? / Isn't It Too Early for the Eighties Yet? - - Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö Edited by Roland Groenenboom. Text by Thurston Moore, Kim Gordon, Lee Ranaldo, Vikki Alexander, Jutta Koether, Mike Kelley, John Miller, Richard Hell, et al.My Name & My Act - Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York, NY 1989 Galerie Max Hetzler - Cologne, Cologne Meet Me Around the Corner - Works from the Astrup Fearnley Collection - Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo Broken Surface" - Galerie Sabine Knust, Munich 2005 Christopher Wool: Recent Editions - Johan Deumens, Haarlem Your History is Not Our History, Haunch of Venison, New York, NY 2009 Christopher Wool: Editions - Artelier Contemporary, Graz Make Your Own Life - Artists In and Out of Cologne - ICA - Institute of Contemporary Art - University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA