The Unwritten History Project Detail Record

Detail Record for Guy de Cointet

Event Title: Two Drawings
Series Title:
Location: Franklin Furnace
Date: 5/9/1978 -
Event Type: Performance

Event Documentation:

Two Drawings

Artist Statement: Two Drawings 1978 Browsing in a West Los Angeles shop, a young woman is attracted by a curiously shaped drawing. "Quite simple and pretty!" she says to herself, and she buys it. But at home, looking at it carefully, she has to admit the modest piece is strange. Very strange indeed, as strange as another drawing… The performance is a detailed account of this young woman's reactions toward these two drawings. The two drawings hang on the wall, side by side. Duration: close to 20 minutes.

Bio: GUY DE COINTET, resume 1489 West Washington Blvd. Los Angeles, Calif. 90007 Tel: (213) 747-1633 Born 1940, Paris, France Lives in Los Angeles Since 1968 EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES 1979 -Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, Calif. Performance: "Tell Me", a play -Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska Performance 1978 -Project Studios One (P.S. 1), New York, N.Y. Performance: "Oh, a bear!", a play -Wadsworth Atheneum, Matrix Gallery, Hartford, Connecticut Exhibition and Performance -Franklin Furnace, New York, N.Y. Performance -Robert Freidus Gallery, New York, N.Y. Exhibition and Performance -80 Langton Street Program, San Francisco, California Performance: "Oh, a bear!" -Simon Lowinsky Gallery, San Francisco, Calif. Exhibition -San Diego State University, San Diego, Calif. Performance 1977 -Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas Performance -Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas Performance -California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif. (Sponsored by S.S.B. a non profit Fine Arts Resource Center and the Baxter Art Gallery, Caltech) Performance: "Ramona", a play, Music by Bob Wilhite -University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa Performance -Theatre Vanguard, Los Angeles, Calif. (Sponsored by the Otis Art Institute Humanities Department and the Theatre Vanguard) Performance: "Iglu", a play, Music by Bob Wilhite -80 Langton Street Program, San Francisco, Calif. Performance -Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Portland, Oregon Performance -Robert Freidus Gallery, New York, N.Y. Exhibition and Performance -Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, Calif. (Sponsored by the San Francisco Art Institute) Performance: "Ethiopia", a play, Music by Bob Wilhite -University of California, Irvine Performance: "Ethiopia" -University of California, Santa Barbara Performance: "Ethiopia" 1976 -Barnsdall Park Theatre, Los Angeles, Calif. (Sponsored by the Cirrus Gallery) Performance: "Ethiopia" -Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, N.Y. Performance -Theatre Recamier, Paris, France Performance -Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, Calif. Exhibition -Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles, Calif. (Sponsored by the American Theatre Association Convention) Performance 1975 -Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Performance -Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, Calif. Performance 1974 -Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, Calif. Performance -University of California, Irvine Performance -Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, Calif. Performance 1973 -Galerie Sonnabend, Paris, France Performance -Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, Calif. Performance SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 1978 -Artists' Books U.S.A. A Traveling Exhibition organized by Independent Curators, Inc. Washington, D.C., New York, N.Y. -Artwords and Bookworks Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art 1977 -Los Angeles in the Seventies Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas -Narrative Themes-Audio Works Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art -Documenta (Artists Books Section) Kassel, Germany -Southland Video Anthology Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, Calif. -International Video Encounter Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Caracas, Venezuela 1976 -Close Radio Program KPFK Radio Station, Los Angeles, Calif. -Drawings Ellen Sragow Gallery, New York, N.Y. 1975 -Language and Structure University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada PUBLICATIONS 1975 -A Few Drawings Book -Animated Discourse In collaboration with Larry Bell Book 1974 -TSNX C24VA7ME Book 1973 -Espahor Ledet Ko Uluner! Book -Cizeghoh Tur Ndjmb Portfolio of prints 1972 -A Captain from Portugal Book 1971 -Acrcit Newspaper

Press Release:

Proposal Information: Rosamund Felsen Gallery "Tell Me" A Play by Guy de Cointet It's late afternoon at Mary's. Her house is situated on the bank of the Sacramento river, in that stretch of the river which is as beautiful as the Danube between Ybbs and Melk, east of Vienna. A few miles away is the town of Courtland, a Chinese settlement for many years, where the famous Dr. Sun Yat Sen lived for a time in exile. After her day's work, Mary is home planning to spend the evening with some of her best friends: Michael, Olive, and hopefully, the elusive Mark. The way these young women behave, talking and listening to each other, how they understand or misunderstand each other, how they see and perceive their surroundings interest me. One of these days, I believe, I'm going to drive up North and pay a visit to Mary. G.C. Los Angeles, March 1979 Cast of Characters: (In Order of Appearance) MARY……..JANE ZINGALE MICHAEL…DENISE DOMERGUE OLIVE……..HELEN MENDEZ Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays: March 1-24, 1979 $2.50 830 PM

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