Luminary Center for the Arts: Thursday, 8 April 2011
HOW TO DISAPPEAR Group Exhibition
and Charles Gick Installation, Three Clouds in Waiting
Opening reception: Friday, April 8th from 6-9pm
On view April 8, 2011- May 20, 2011
Wednesday-Saturday from 12-6pm
Main Gallery: How to Disappear
You want to go beyond making yourself disappear: You want to make it seem as if you never existed. -Seth Price, How to Disappear in America
The Luminary Center for the Arts is pleased to present the international group exhibition How to Disappear, which brings together seven innovative emerging and established artists that offer divergent how-to manuals on disappearing, records of vanishment and satirical takes on the dissolution of self. Informed by Seth Price’s book How to Disappear in America, this innovative and elusive exhibition traces forms of disappearance, means of dropping out of society and the concept of being unknown as revolutionary act through multimedia installations, altered family photos and quarters laced with razorblades.
Artist collectives Young Hae-Chang’s HEAVY INDUSTRIES and Claire Fontaine each present their tongue-in-cheek work that range from French revolutionary theories to concrete poetry narratives. Romanian artist Mircea Cantor’s lyrical video installation, Tracking Happiness, shows a series of women sweeping in endless circles of white sand, covering over temporary traces. His photographic diptych Io depicts a tunnel entrance and exit, each indistinguishable, forging an unease in which the act of coming and going are blurred.
Ben Alper and Tatiana Grigorenko employ family histories and photography as a distorted medium of personal and collective history, as well as the profound sense of loss when our records fail us and disappear from view. Cayetano Ferrer and Seth Price each make use of the book as anonymous form, shapeshifting through identities and voices. Cayetano Ferrer presents invisible installations that blend in to the background as well as performative elements that cause the artist himself to disappear in a haze of references and counter-narratives reminiscent of Borges’s best work. Price’s How to Disappear in America acts as a kind of template for the exhibition, cobbling together accounts and tips on how an individual disappears from the public from uncredited sources, original research and personal anecdotes.
At the closing reception on May 20th, filmmaker Rene Daalder will screen Here is Always Someplace Else, an account of conceptual artist Bas Jan Ader’s mysterious disappearance at sea in the smallest sailboat to ever cross the Atlantic Ocean.
Installation Space: Charles Gick, Three Clouds in Waiting
Charles Gick will present a new site-specific installation entitled, Three Clouds in Waiting in The Luminary Installation Space. Three Clouds places Gick’s paintings within a barren landscape created by a thick slab of dried mud, offering new resonances between painting, sculpture and the natural environment. Presented in the Installation Space, the meditative installation confronts, examines and repairs our often tenuous physical, intellectual and emotional relationships with nature.
THE LUMINARY | CENTER FOR THE ARTS
www.theluminaryarts.com
and Charles Gick Installation, Three Clouds in Waiting
Opening reception: Friday, April 8th from 6-9pm
On view April 8, 2011- May 20, 2011
Wednesday-Saturday from 12-6pm
Main Gallery: How to Disappear
You want to go beyond making yourself disappear: You want to make it seem as if you never existed. -Seth Price, How to Disappear in America
The Luminary Center for the Arts is pleased to present the international group exhibition How to Disappear, which brings together seven innovative emerging and established artists that offer divergent how-to manuals on disappearing, records of vanishment and satirical takes on the dissolution of self. Informed by Seth Price’s book How to Disappear in America, this innovative and elusive exhibition traces forms of disappearance, means of dropping out of society and the concept of being unknown as revolutionary act through multimedia installations, altered family photos and quarters laced with razorblades.
Artist collectives Young Hae-Chang’s HEAVY INDUSTRIES and Claire Fontaine each present their tongue-in-cheek work that range from French revolutionary theories to concrete poetry narratives. Romanian artist Mircea Cantor’s lyrical video installation, Tracking Happiness, shows a series of women sweeping in endless circles of white sand, covering over temporary traces. His photographic diptych Io depicts a tunnel entrance and exit, each indistinguishable, forging an unease in which the act of coming and going are blurred.
Ben Alper and Tatiana Grigorenko employ family histories and photography as a distorted medium of personal and collective history, as well as the profound sense of loss when our records fail us and disappear from view. Cayetano Ferrer and Seth Price each make use of the book as anonymous form, shapeshifting through identities and voices. Cayetano Ferrer presents invisible installations that blend in to the background as well as performative elements that cause the artist himself to disappear in a haze of references and counter-narratives reminiscent of Borges’s best work. Price’s How to Disappear in America acts as a kind of template for the exhibition, cobbling together accounts and tips on how an individual disappears from the public from uncredited sources, original research and personal anecdotes.
At the closing reception on May 20th, filmmaker Rene Daalder will screen Here is Always Someplace Else, an account of conceptual artist Bas Jan Ader’s mysterious disappearance at sea in the smallest sailboat to ever cross the Atlantic Ocean.
Installation Space: Charles Gick, Three Clouds in Waiting
Charles Gick will present a new site-specific installation entitled, Three Clouds in Waiting in The Luminary Installation Space. Three Clouds places Gick’s paintings within a barren landscape created by a thick slab of dried mud, offering new resonances between painting, sculpture and the natural environment. Presented in the Installation Space, the meditative installation confronts, examines and repairs our often tenuous physical, intellectual and emotional relationships with nature.
THE LUMINARY | CENTER FOR THE ARTS
www.theluminaryarts.com
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