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Ground Zero Gallery was an art gallery formed in the East Village / Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York in the summer of 1983 as a vehicle for the partnership of artist James Romberger and his wife Marguerite Van Cook. In 1984 the gallery found its first physical home on East Eleventh Street and showed the work of many East Village artists who went on to gain national recognition. It was an early proponent of installation art. Ground Zero served as the production name for many projects in various media undertaken by the team of Van Cook and Romberger, until the September 11 attacks gave a new meaning to the term "ground zero" in New York City. ==Early years== Ground Zero opened its first gallery site in 1984.〔Engler, Brigitte "Breaking Ground". Paper Magazine, 5/84〕〔 〕 It remained in this location until the following year, when it moved into a larger space on East Tenth Street facing Tompkins Square Park.〔 〕 Romberger and Van Cook presented and pioneered the concept of installations and multimedia environments and hosted many performance events. These included the première of Cinema of Transgression director Richard Kern’s ''You Killed Me First'', featuring Karen Finley and David Wojnarowicz, which was part of an installation presented by David Wojnarowicz entitled ''Installation number 8''.〔 〕 Other installations presented were ''Hell'' by Mike Osterhout, ''Zero Gravity'' by Dragan Ilic〔http://www.draganilic.org/〕 and ''Cold War'' by Marguerite Van Cook.〔Reid, Calvin, "Marguerite Van Cook: Cold War". 108 Newsletter, 6 1985〕 The Gallery was also home to collaborative installations, such as ''The Nuclear Family'' curated by Carlo McCormick featuring the work of David West, Keiko Bonk, Andy Soma, David Wojnarowicz, James Romberger and Marguerite Van Cook. Artists shown by Ground Zero include: Edward Brezinski, Peggy Cyphers, Christof Kohlhofer, David West, David Wojnarowicz, Calvin Reid, Phase 2, Sharp, Delta Dos, Arnold Wechsler, Martin Wong and Michael Roman.〔McCormick, Carlo. "Funky, Overly Democratic, Low Budget Art," East Village Eye, 1985〕 In 1986 the gallery moved again to a site on East Ninth Street where among the curations was the David Wojnarowicz show ''Mexican Diaries'',〔 〕 which informs portions of the video ''A Fire in My Belly'', the subject of the 2011 controversy sparked by the removal of the work from the exhibition ''Hide/Seek'' at the National Portrait Gallery.〔 (【引用サイトリンク】title=Wojnarowiczs Apostasy )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ground Zero Gallery」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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