Legacies of modernism reappraised and reconstructed in an epic project by Ren-Green
American artist Ren-Green (born 1959) spent two years engaged with the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University, during which she presented a series of interlinked public programs and exhibitions, culminated with her major exhibition Within Living Memory (2018). Green-s Carpenter project, Pacing, is a meditation spurred by inhabiting an architectural icon-Le Corbusier-s Carpenter Center-while exploring the historical and institutional legacies of modernism-s other forms, including cinema, visual art, poetry, music and literature.
This handsome publication illuminates Green-s unfolding process, with a sequence of exhibitions that took place from 2015 and culminating in Pacing: Facing in Toronto; Tracing in Como, Italy; Placing in Berlin; Spacing in Lisbon; and Begin Again, Begin Again in Los Angeles. The r
