Nick Mauss on Nicolas Moufarrege

Join us for a special talk by artist Nick Mauss co-organized with the Queens Museum on the occasion of Nicolas Moufarrege: Recognize My Sign.

This program is the first part of International Mutant: Nicolas Moufarrege in Time and Space, an afternoon of talks hosted by Bidoun. After Nick Mauss, the afternoon continues with conversation among friends and associates from the five-odd years Moufarrege spent at the epicenter of New York’s East Village art scene.

Participating speakers:
Nick Mauss
Hala Halim
Robyn Creswell
Bella Meyer
Alanna Heiss
Carlo McCormick
Sur Rodney (Sur)

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Nick Mauss is an artist based in New York. His 2018 exhibition Transmissions at the Whitney Museum of American Art blurred the boundaries between an historical exhibition and an artwork, examining the social and aesthetic interdependence of modernist ballet and avant-garde practices in pre-Stonewall New York. A publication elaborating on Transmissions is forthcoming from Dancing Foxes Press and Yale University Press. In November 2019, Mauss performed in Yvonne Rainer and Emily Coates’ reconstruction of Rainer’s seminal 1965 dance “Parts of Some Sextets” and in February of 2020 he will present an exhibition at Kunsthalle Basel. Mauss has written on the work of Lorraine O’Grady, Jochen Klein, Hanne Darboven, Madame Gres, Susan Cianciolo, Anne Theresa de Keersmaeker, and Ian White, among others.

Nicolas Moufarrege: Recognize My Sign is on view at the Queens Museum through February 16. Nicolas Moufarrege (1947-1985) was an artist and writer born to Lebanese parents in Alexandria, Egypt and raised in Beirut. During a career that lasted just over a decade, he created an original and idiosyncratic body of embroidered paintings made in Beirut; Paris, France; and New York City. Recognize My Sign—the artist’s first solo museum exhibition—traces the development of his work from the lap-scaled portrait-tapestries he began making in the early 1970s to the final works he created while living in New York between 1980 and 1985. This exhibition offers an opportunity to rediscover the materially and conceptually compelling work of a singular creative force whose output is remarkably relevant and resonant today. Nicolas Moufarrege: Recognize My Sign is organized by Contemporary Arts Museum Houston Curator Dean Daderko and coordinated by Queens Museum curator Larissa Harris.

For more information on Moufarrege check out Visual AIDS' 2016 publication DUETS: Dean Daderko & Elaine Reichek In Conversation on Nicolas A. Moufarrege, available for purchase on the Visual AIDS store. The catalog for Nicolas Moufarrege: Recognize My Sign is also available online here.

Available at Queens Museum and digitally as a PDF is Recognizing the Present: A Doula’s Guide to HIV in the 21st Century created by What Would an HIV Doula Do? with support from Visual AIDS and Queens Museum. (Spanish version available here.)