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Opening at the UCLA Fowler Museum on February 23, 2008,
the MAKE ART/STOP
AIDS exhibition was greeted by one of the
largest crowds in the museum's history. An estimated 800
people, including both invited guests and the general public,
viewed a performance of Biro by Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine and
then flowed into the exhibition gallery. Fowler Museum staff
commented that the opening for MAKE
ART/STOP AIDS was not only one of the largest
events the museum had ever hosted in terms of attendance,
but also that it was the most diverse.
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Now It's
In Your Hands - Exhibition Brochure
The unique collection, which showcases approximately
seventy-five contemporary works of art from the United States,
South Africa, India and Brazil, presented artists' responses to
the HIV/AIDS pandemic from the last twenty-five years. Curated
by Professors David Gere and Robert Sember, it is the most complete
global retrospective of artistic responses to HIV/AIDS assembled
to date. Artists featured in the collection included Robert Gober,
David Wojnarowicz, Fiona Kirkwood, Daniel Goldstein, Jean Carlomusto,
Jose Leonilson Bezerra Dias, Felix Gonzalez Torres, and the collective
Gran Fury, among others.
MAKE
ART/STOP AIDS received strong reviews through various
local Los Angeles media outlets, including the local NPR station,
which offered that "The exhibition ... provides more than
just a lecture on the difficult subject of AIDS and the fragility
of life: it finds poetry where few of us dare to search. There
are a number of artworks that are simply impossible to get out
of your mind because of their visual eloquence."
Please see: http://www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/at/at080226to_love_it_all.
Nearly 20,000 people witnessed the exhibition at the Fowler over
its three-month run.
An adapted version of the exhibition, renamed
Not Alone, is currently on tour through
South Africa. For more pictures, please click
here
The exhibition was divided into seven separate
sections, each posing a relevant question:
1. WHAT IS AIDS?
2. WHO LIVES, WHO DIES?
3. WHY ARE CONDOMS CONTROVERSIAL?
4. ARE YOU AFRAID TO TOUCH?
5. WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU CRIED?
6. WHY A RED RIBBON?
7. ARE YOU READY TO ACT?
The exhibition MAKE
ART/STOP AIDS is made possible through grants from
the Ford Foundation, Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts,
and Peter Norton Family Foundation.
Read a NY Times feature on David Goldblatt, one
of the artsits featured in the MAKE
ART/STOP AIDS exhibition http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/21/arts/design/21goldblatt.html
For more details and a Photo-Tour of the exhibition,
please visit http://www.fowler.ucla.edu/
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