Moon Tent for the Flower Moon

Hollybush Gardens

The Estate of Rosemary Mayer in collaboration with Reto Pulfer, commissioned by Hollybush Gardens London, and hosted by Forma.

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Join us for Moon Tent for the Flower Moon, a one-night celebration of Rosemary Mayer’s ‘Moon Tent’ with readings, refreshments and moon viewing in Forma’s Peveril Gardens. Organised in association with a solo exhibition by the artist at Hollybush Gardens, 10 May – 21 June 2025.Mayer’s 'Moon Tent' was a site specific, ‘temporary monument’ realised on the night of the full moon in October 1982 at the home of art historian Robert Hobbs in Lansing, New YorkHollybush Gardens have worked closely with The Estate of Rosemary Mayer and artist Reto Pulfer to create a moon tent in the spirit of Mayer’s approach. Her accompanying drawings with their various iterations and provocations such as ‘have you got the time’ and ‘can you stay up late?’ have further served as a guide and an invitation.Re-interpreting Moon Tent and referencing Mayer’s numerous drawings of tents, drapes, banners, fabrics and flags, Pulfer responds to the existing architecture of FormaHQ and the rooftop setting at Peveril Gardens. Marie Warsh of The Estate of Rosemary Mayer also brings together new, handmade florals, realised with direct reference to the drawings and made in situ from the glassine, cellophane and coloured papers that frequented Mayer's practice. Throughout the evening, seasonal and moon-inspired refreshments will be shared among guests, with readings by artist Siobhan Liddell, artist and writer Natalie Häusler, and writers Vanessa Onwuemezi and Aurelia Guo. Rosemary Mayer (1943-2014) was a prolific artist involved in the New York art scene beginning in the late 1960s. Most well-known for her large-scale sculptures made with fabric, she also created works on paper, artist books, and outdoor installations, exploring themes of temporality, history, and biography. During the 1970s she had exhibitions at various alternative spaces in New York City, including one of the earliest shows at A.I.R Gallery, the first cooperative gallery for women, of which she was a founding member. She was also a critic and writer, contributing to various journals of artists’ writings and creating an issue of the magazine Art-Rite. Her interest in art history, and particularly the artists of the Mannerist period, resulted in her translation of the diary of Jacopo da Pontormo, which was published alongside a catalog of her work by Out of London Press in 1982. Beginning in the 1990s, she became focused on teaching art, eventually becoming a professor at LaGuardia Community College in Queens.Since Mayer’s death in 2014, her estate has helped to organise exhibitions and publications of her work, beginning with an exhibition at Southfirst Gallery in Brooklyn in 2016 and the publication of excerpts from her 1971 journal. In 2020, her work was introduced to European audiences through Nick Mauss’s exhibition, Bizarre Silks, Private Imaginings and Narrative Facts, etc., at Kunsthalle Basel and her first solo exhibition there, Rods Bent Into Bows, at ChertLüdde in Berlin. In 2021, a solo show at Gordon Robichaux in New York entitled Pleasures and Possible Celebrations, focused on her installations with balloons and related work. Her work was also included in Greater New York 2021 at MoMA PS1, in Just Above Midtown: Changing Spaces, at MoMA and in SIREN (some poetics) at the Amant Foundation in Brooklyn in 2022.The first institutional survey of her work, Ways of Attaching, opened at the Swiss Institute in New York in autumn 2021.The exhibition was organised in partnership with Ludwig Forum, Aachen; Lenbachhaus, Munich; and Spike Island, Bristol, where the exhibition traveled in 2022. A catalogue of this show was published in 2022. Mayer’s work is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, Lenbachhaus, Munich, and numerous private collections. The Estate of Rosemary Mayer is represented by Gordon Robichaux, New York and ChertLüdde, Berlin.

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