Outreach: Jaime Davidovich, 1974-1984 is the first solo exhibition in Chicago of video and television works by the pioneering, overlooked Argentine artist Jaime Davidovich, curated by Daniel Quiles. This show examines the dynamic ten-year period in which Davidovich transitioned from formalist experiments with installation and video to producing public-access cable television programs.
Born in 1936 in Buenos Aires, Davidovich first exhibited paintings in 1958 and moved to New York City in 1963, where he developed a mode of post-minimalism based around the application of strips of adhesive tape to gallery walls. In the early 1970s, Davidovich began to use videotape as well, gradually began producing his own videos that methodically reflected on his immediate environment in downtown New York City: his studio and the city block directly outside it. In 1976, he became a founding member of Cable SoHo, one of the earliest initiatives toward artist-made television, and in 1978 became...president of the Artists’ Television Network. Between 1979 and 1984 he produced The Live! Show for the Manhattan Cable Television, on which he appeared as his TV personality, Dr. Videovich—a specialist in television addiction. Throughout this period, certain of Davidovich’s projects, among them La patria vacía (Empty Fatherland, 1975) and Evita Then and Now: A Video Scrapbook (1984), reflected on ongoing political problems in Argentina from an expatriate’s perspective.
Three programs of Davidovich’s work will rotate over the course of the six-week exhibition. Each of these will feature work from a range of dates that attests to rapid transformations in the artist’s sensibility and technological possibilities.
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