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Tuesday 6 September, 19:00 hrs. Free admission. This invitation is for you and one guest.

Torsten Jurell has rented an art studio in Beijing for five years. Recently he returned to Stockholm after four months in Caochangdi – one of several villages in Beijing where artists from all over the world congregate. Artist Ai Weiwei has his studio in Caochangdi, where he also designed the big art galleries located at a walking distance from the 798 Art District. During these five years, Torsten Jurell has worked on an “underground project.” Several times along the way he has held exhibitions with parts of the work in Beijing, in 798, at the Museum of East Asia in Stockholm in 2010, and now he finishes the whole project with a big exhibition, “Beyond the Underground,” at the Röhsska Museum in Gothenburg this fall. (See also the presentation in Paletten No. 3-4, 2010.)

Torsten Jurell will talk about what makes him travel to China. He will show pictures of works by himself as well as by Chinese colleagues, and tell us about his impressions and experiences from the Chinese art scene.

A bar serving light food will be open all evening, from 18:30 to 23:00. Address: Konstnärsklubben, 2nd floor, Smålandsgatan 7, Stockholm. Ring door bell marked “Konstnärsklubben”.

Arranged by the Tuesday Club – the meeting place for artists in Konstnärshuset (the Artists’ House) on the first Tuesday of every month, in collaboration with the Swedish Art Critics Association.

The talk will be held in Swedish.

Thursday 14 April 2011, at 18.30

About the Danish artist Asger Jorn (1914–1973)

In the Auditorium, Moderna museet, Stockholm
Admission free

Introduction by Daniel Birnbaum

Hal Foster is an American art critic and art historian, born in Seattle in 1955 and a professor at the department of art and archaeology, Princeton University, since 1997. He is currently a Siemens Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin.

Foster has had a seminal influence on our understanding of postmodernism and its relationship to modernism, most recently in his extensive textbook, Art Since 1900. Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism (2004), co-written with Rosalind Krauss, Yves-Alain Bois and Benjamin H. D. Buchloh. As early as in 1983, Foster published a number of ground-breaking essays in The Anti-Aesthetic. Essays on Postmodern Culture, now regarded as a standard work on postmodernism. Foster began his career as an art critic in 1970s New York, working mainly for Artforum and Art in America, where he was part of the editorial team between 1981 and 1987. In 1990, he presented his dissertation on surrealism at New York City University, later published as Compulsive Beauty (1993).

Since 1991, Foster is co-editor of the magazine October, together with his former tutor Rosalind Krauss and others. He is the author of numerous influential books, including Recodings. Art, Spectacle, Cultural Politics (1985), The Return of the Real. The Avant-Garde at the End of the Century (1996), Design and crime and other diatribes (2003) and Prosthetic Gods (2004).

In collaboration with Södertörns Högskola and Svenska Konstkritikersamfundet.