No Longer Art: Salvage Art Institute, a new exhibition at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation (GSAPP)'s Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery, displays a selection of "salvage art" — a term from the art insurance lexicon, referring to work removed from art circulation due to accidental damage —, confronting the common understanding of where art ends and disturbing the distinction, organization, and separation of art from non-art.
Founded by artist Elka Krajewska, the Salvage Art Institute provides a refuge for salvaged artwork while offering a platform for confronting the regulation of its financial, aesthetic and social value. At the core of No Longer Art is the first salvage art inventory gifted to the institute, a group of objects related primarily through their "total loss" status. These insured objects are officially considered devoid of value, and are no longer alive in terms of the market, gallery or museum system, despite being often still relatively intact. The survival of salvage art even past its total devaluation confronts our common understanding of where art ends, disturbing the distinction, organization, and separation of art from non-art.
No Longer Art
A new exhibition at the GSAPP's Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery displays a selection of salvage art, confronting the common understanding of where art ends and disturbing the distinction, organization, and separation of art from non-art.
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- 20 November 2012
- New York
Developed by Krajewska and GSAPP Exhibitions with the participation of AXA Art Insurance Corporation, the exhibition engages an actuarial logic that delivers a series of curious reversals, seeking to annul the value of total loss objects.
Alongside the exhibition, the Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery will host a roundtable discussion on 30 November, from 14:00 to 18:00, on salvage art and questions of damage and value with art historian Alexander Dumbadze, poet, novelist and critic Ben Lerner, architectural historian Andrew Herscher, artist Elka Krajewska, artist and art lawyer Sérgio Muñoz Sarmiento, anthropologist Michael Taussig, certified appraiser and valuation specialist Renee Vara, and GSAPP Director Of Exhibitions Mark Wasiuta.
Through 20 December 2012
No Longer Art: Salvage Art Institute
Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery
Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation (GSAPP)
1172 Amsterdam Avenue, New York