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To celebrate the New York City Opera's 2009-10 season and the company's return to the newly renovated David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center, City Opera and Deitch Projects will present a site-specific installation by artist E.V. Day in the theater's Promenade. A series of dynamic sculptures made from a selection of vintage City Opera costumes and costume accessories will be dramatically suspended overhead in exuberant simulated motion.
On view beginning November 5 (the night of American Voices, the company's opening gala), the installation will remain in place
throughout City Opera's fall and spring seasons. On Friday, November 6, from 5 to 9pm, the installation will be open to the public, free of charge. After November 6, the artwork may be viewed by ticket holders to all City Opera performances.
Working in a medium she describes as "exploding couture," Day will lend soaring animation to garments including Cio-Cio-San's
kimono, Don Giovanni's cape, Carmen's mantilla and Manon's elegant 18th-century dress (in a twin of the costume worn by Beverly
Sills). Day has chosen the garments from City Opera's rich archive of retired costumes, and has transformed them into dramatic stopmotion
expressions of the explosive energy and extravagance of opera. Each sculpture will be suspended by fishing tackle within its own 10-foot-high "stage" comprising a pair of horizontal steel rings, each six feet in diameter. The rings will then be hung like stars at three different heights above the Philip Johnson-designed Promenade, making them easily visible to operagoers on all tiers. A map of
the installation will help viewers to identify the character and production represented by each sculpture.
E.V. Day had a solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum at Altria in 2001, where she installed G-Force, a work in which she suspended hundreds of thongs from the ceiling in fighter jet formations. Day had a ten-year survey exhibition in 2004 at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University for which a color catalogue was produced. E.V. Day’s exhibition Intergalactic Installations was on view at the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum in the spring and summer of 2006, and then appeared at Art Basel Miami Beach. Deitch Projects is pleased to announce a solo exhibiton of E.V. Day's work in Spring of 2008.
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