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Tony Feher featured in travelling retrospective, a new monograph, and the dedication of a major public commission

NEW YORK, May 8, 2012Pace is delighted to announce a range of projects by artist Tony Feher in the coming months, including the first travelling retrospective of his work, a new monograph, and the dedication of a major public commission. The inaugural exhibition of the first travelling retrospective devoted to Fehers career opens at Des Moines Art Center on May 11. Organized by Claudia Schmuckli, Chief Curator and Director of the Blaffer Art Museum, University of Houston, the twenty-year survey reveals the personal, formal, material, and spatial vocabulary Feher has developed and refined over nearly three decades. The sixty works on view demonstrate the artists unequivocal ability to reveal clarity, beauty, and emotion in poetic sculptures composed of quotidian materials and objects, while retaining the distinct formal qualities and fragile, transient nature of their carefully selected components. Tony Feher will be on view at Des Moines Art Center, May 11 September 2, 2012; Blaffer Art Museum, University of Houston, October 13, 2012 March 31st, 2013 ; deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, May 26 September 16, 2013 and Bronx Museum, October 6, 2013 February 14, 2013. A fully-illustrated monograph on Feher, the first comprehensive publication to document the artists career, will be published in conjunction with his travelling retrospective. The 272-page book features essays by Russell Ferguson, Chair, Department of Art, UCLA, and exhibition curator Claudia Schmuckli, in addition to more than 100 full-color

plates. The monograph is designed by Takaaki Matsumoto Inc., New York, and published and distributed by Gregory R. Miller & Co., New York. Fehers commissioned public art installation at the new federal courthouse in Rockford, Illinois, will be dedicated on Monday, May 14. A lecture with the artist, sponsored by The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) will be held at 7pm at the Rockford Art Museum (see attached for more information). Super Special Happy Place is a two-acre installation composed of five varieties of crab-apple trees. The ever-changing orchard will bloom with red, pink and white flowers, and grow clusters of apples in shades of scarlet, orange, and gold in the fall. The installation, which will become an integral part of the Rockford community, is Fehers first work comprised entire ly of natural materials. The installation is part of the General Service Administrations Art in Architecture program , developed under the Kennedy administration. The courthouse was designed by architects Koetter Kim &

Associates, Inc. Fehers project joins a list of prestigious commissions for federal buildings nationwide, including Alexander Calders Flamingo (1974) in Chicagos Federal Plaza, Jim Dines Cleveland Venus (2003) for Clevelands Federal Courthouse, and James Turrells Sky Garden (2007) in the San Francisco Federal Building. Two site-determined installations commissioned by The Ulrich Museum of Art at Wichita State University for their Martin H. Bush Outdoor Sculpture Collection are currently on view (through October 2012). Fehers vibrant orange geometric installation Carl Sagan, Carl Sagan (Destination 1), 2012 is installed on the faade of the museum, standing in for the Ulrichs iconic Joan Mir mural as it undergoes conservation . Fehers rhythmic design incorporates the bare metal grid formerly supporting the mural, recalling the language of geometric minimalism.

Carl Sagan, Carl Sagan (Destination 2) , 2012 utilizes the organic line of the trees on the grounds as a foundation for
a linear network of orange running through the landscape. The rows of painted, water-filled plastic drinking bottles, hung from the branches at even intervals, respond to the changing quality of light and seasons. Click here for more information. Feher will join artist Zoe Leonard in conver sation at the New York Public Librarys Stephen A. Schwarzman Building on Wednesday, May 30 from 6 to 8 p.m. Please click here for more information. For additional information on any of Fehers projects, please contact Paces press department at 212.421.8987. For general inquiries, please email reprorequest@thepacegallery.com.
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