ADAM JONAS
HOROWITZ
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Adam Jonas Horowitz is a sculptor, performer, public installation artist, and filmmaker of fiction and documentary
films, unified by their effort to confront and contemplate spicy dilemmas
of human rights and the environment in fresh, challenging ways. A graduate of
the UC Berkeley School of Journalism, he produced the PBS funded,
internationally acclaimed feature documentary film Nuclear Savage:
The Islands of Secret Project 4.1. He also created a satiric, megalithic
“anti-monument” to consumer society: the monumental public art
installation Fridgehenge; a full-scale pagan temple of kitchen
appliances built by loin-clothed Sisyphean slaves on the site of a former solid
waste landfill in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He is currently producing a
documentary film about the U.S. orchestrated cover-up of WWII Japanese war
crimes featuring several former "Comfort Women" survivors. In the
public art realm, he is in the process of creating PlasticHenge,
a monumental public art installation and sculptural sequel to Fridgehenge.
Also in production is his new satiric, fictional film series about advanced
technology and human hubris Atomic Gods: Creation Myths of the Bomb,
that has been partially funded by 516 Arts and the Andy Warhol Foundation.
Organized by Estudio Pedro Reyes
in collaboration with ICAN
ARTISTS AGAINST THE BOMB is an exhibition of posters that call for universal nuclear disarmament. Each made by a different artist, the group comprises historical and newly
commissioned works that detail a cultural history of disarmament movements and evidence the diversity of ways in which artists have expressed the need to ban the bomb. ARTISTS AGAINST THE BOMB is designed for maximum agility and economic effectiveness, relying on a black and white palette both for its impact and ease o reproduction. We asked artists to ensure their works can exist on a variety of supports, ephemera such as posters, postcards, billboards, banners, flags, t-shirts and social media posts, as we aspire to achieve the widest possible circulation of this message.
ARTISTS AGAINST THE BOMB presents the works of foundational conceptual artists Art & Language; pop hero, Keith Haring; legendary feminists, Guerrilla Girls; performance artists Regina José Galindo and Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova, as well
as eminent sculptors Magdalena Abakanowicz and Isamu Noguchi. It also features indelible photographs by Robert Del Tredici and Ken Domon alongside protest graphics from social movements such as the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), founded in 1958 and still active; the epic Peace Squadron and Visual Artists Against Nuclear Arms (VAANA); and the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF). Additionally, it examines how stories are told, from the theater of Bread and Puppet to films like Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove and Marguerite Duras / Alain Resnais’ Hiroshima Mon Amour, to an unexpected survey of literature, from an early
anticipation of an atomic bomb, first envisioned by H.G. Wells in 1918, to the viscera spoken word poetry of Jayne Cortez.
ARTISTS AGAINST THE BOMB, organized by Estudio Pedro Reyes in collaboration with the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), is presented on the occasion of the Second Meeting of State Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) held at the United Nations in 2023.
To organize en exhibition of ARTISTS AGAINST THE BOMB please contact curatorial assistant Verana Codina.
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