Bruno David Gallery: Friday, 11 February 2011
You are invited to the opening reception (v2) of This City, Daily Rising, a solo exhibition of new work by the Shanghai-based artist Christina Shmigel, on Friday, February 11, 5-9pm. The exhibition is now fully installed (view it online) and we hope to see you Friday night.
Christina Shmigel’s first solo US exhibition since 2005, is composed of three interrelated installations. Continually shifting between macro- and microcosmic views, the installations are emblematic of Shmigel’s play with scale and size, intimacy and monumentality, and create for the viewer something of the vibrancy & intensity of Shanghai (China), the city where she now lives and works. There is much in this exhibition that springs from the local knowledge of Shanghai but also much that speaks to more universal themes. How do we decipher and interpret experience, making meaning amidst that which is foreign to us? How do we come to know the world thru association and memory and projection? And, most importantly, the question that has always been central to Shmigel’s work, how do the inanimate things that we build and that we surround ourselves with, reveal the nature of our humanity? See an article on The Wall Street Journal by Lisa Movius on her upcoming exhibition (here).
Showing at the gallery:
Shawn Burkard: ORANGES/MEGALITHIC (Front Room)
Eleanor Dubinsky: Touch the Sky (Media Room)
The gallery is open free to the public and the hours are 10 AM to 5 PM Wednesdays through Saturdays, and by appointment.
Christina Shmigel’s first solo US exhibition since 2005, is composed of three interrelated installations. Continually shifting between macro- and microcosmic views, the installations are emblematic of Shmigel’s play with scale and size, intimacy and monumentality, and create for the viewer something of the vibrancy & intensity of Shanghai (China), the city where she now lives and works. There is much in this exhibition that springs from the local knowledge of Shanghai but also much that speaks to more universal themes. How do we decipher and interpret experience, making meaning amidst that which is foreign to us? How do we come to know the world thru association and memory and projection? And, most importantly, the question that has always been central to Shmigel’s work, how do the inanimate things that we build and that we surround ourselves with, reveal the nature of our humanity? See an article on The Wall Street Journal by Lisa Movius on her upcoming exhibition (here).
Showing at the gallery:
Shawn Burkard: ORANGES/MEGALITHIC (Front Room)
Eleanor Dubinsky: Touch the Sky (Media Room)
The gallery is open free to the public and the hours are 10 AM to 5 PM Wednesdays through Saturdays, and by appointment.
Bruno David Gallery, Inc
3721 Washington Boulevard (in Grand Center)
St. Louis, MO 63108
3721 Washington Boulevard (in Grand Center)
St. Louis, MO 63108
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