Requiem (Homage to György Kurtág) with Alexander Polzin and Clare Bell

In celebration of the inauguration of his Requiem sculpture on SNFL's 1st Floor, join us for this conversation about arts and culture with multidisciplinary artist Alexander Polzin and Associate Director of NYPL's Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, Clare Bell.

This event will take place in person at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library on the 7th Floor. Alexander Polzin's sculpture Requiem (homage to György Kurtág) can be found on the 1st Floor near the Welcome Desk.

Requiem (homage to György Kurtág), 2011; Alexander Polzin.

To join the event in person | Doors will open 30 minutes before the program begins. For free events, we generally overbook to ensure a full house. Priority will be given to those who have registered in advance, but registration does not guarantee admission. All registered seats are released shortly before start time, and seats may become available at that time. A standby line will form 30 minutes before the program.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Alexander Polzin is a sculptor, painter and stage designer who was born in Berlin in 1973. His works are installed in public spaces around the world, and in galleries or museums such as the Getty Center in Los Angeles. For example , Polzin created a monument to Giordano Bruno commissioned by George Soros that was installed at Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, and his sculptural "Homage to Paul Celan" was placed in the Anne Frank Garden in Paris. Most recently the Royal Academy in London installed Polzin’s J.S. Bach sculpture in their Foyer. Again and again, his works are created in dialogue with literature, music and philosophy. Part of this exchange are his stage designs for opera productions in Salzburg, New York, Madrid, Brussels or Geneva.

Clare Bell is Associate Director of the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs at NYPL, and a curator with expertise in strategic exhibition planning. She was recently Senior Director of Exhibitions at the Guggenheim Museum in New York where she supervised numerous international and domestic traveling shows. She was a curator at the Guggenheim before taking on the role of Chief Curator and Deputy Director at the Museum of the City of New York. She has written extensively on the work of Roy Lichtenstein and served as Manager of Exhibitions for the foundation established in his name. She has taught at the School of Visual Arts and more recently at New York University in the graduate Museum Studies program.

ACCESSIBILITY NOTES

In-Person

• Assistive listening devices and/or hearing loops are available at the venue.


• You can request a free ASL (American Sign Language) interpretation or CART (Communication Access Real-Time Translation) captioning service by emailing your request at least two weeks in advance of the event: email accessibility@nypl.org or use this Gmail template.


• This venue is fully accessible to wheelchairs.

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The 7 Stories Up Series at SNFL is made possible by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF).