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Stand Still Like a Hummingbird

June 26, 2012
Jerry McMillan, Ed Ruscha with six of his books on his head, 1970

David Zwirner gallery in New York presents Stand Still like the Hummingbird, an exhibition curated by Bellatrix Hubert in the gallery’s 525 and 533 spaces. It takes its title from a collection of short stories and essays by American writer Henry Miller, published in 1962. Known equally for his mysticism and dark humor, Miller proposed the idea of “flying backwards, standing still like a hummingbird” as a lighthearted antidote to the frantic pace of modern society. The exhibition also embraces the paradox in the appropriation of its title – the hummingbird only appears still because of the rapidity of its wings – and gathers a selection of paintings, sculptures, and videos by artists who engage with contradictions, impossibilities, and the absurd. The exhibition also explores the notion of "understated gestures and formal restraint" - finding its historical starting point in Marcel Duchamp's Comb and other readymades artworks that came to influence a century of art making. Works in the show include Forty-two postcards by On Kawara, stamped by the time he got up on a given day and simply titled I Got Up(1968-1976), a collection of Ed Ruscha’s photobooks (1964-1978), works by Bernd and Hilla Becher, Francis Alÿs, Marcel Duchamp, and more. Stand Still Like a Hummingbird will be on view from June 28 to August 3, 2012 at David Zwirner gallery, 525 West 19th Street, New York.

In Art Tags Alan Uglow, Bellatrix Hubert, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Bruce Nauman, Cady Noland, Carol Bove, Christopher Williams, david Zwirner, Ed Ruscha, Francis Alÿs, Gordon Matta-Clark, henry miller, Jim Nutt, John McCracken, Marcel Duchamp, Martha Wilson, Mason Williams, Morgan Fisher, On Kawara, Robert Gober, Rodney Graham, Ruth Laskey, Sherrie Levine, Stand Still Like a Hummingbird, Stand Still Like a Hummingbird david zwirner, thomas ruff, Tomma Abts
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