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SUMMARY:Calling on the Past: Selections from the Collection
DESCRIPTION:Calling on the Past invites visitors to experience the Smart Museum’s collection anew\, through a sensory exploration of color\, texture\, and form. \nIn lieu of customary chronological or geographical divisions\, such as those that have often guided the display of the collection in the past\, this installation draws on the breadth and depth of the Museum’s holdings to situate key works side by side across centuries. From antiquities to contemporary painting and sculpture\, the cross-historical selection of objects speaks to the varied materials\, ideas\, and questions artists continue to explore\, while emphasizing the editing of history. \nCalling on the Past is inspired in part by art historian George Kubler’s seminal text The Shape of Time: Remarks on the History of Things (1962)\, which argues the art of the past is in constant conversation with the present. Kubler replaces the notion of art historical styles with the understanding that time is both linear and looped\, and artists have been revisiting the same sets of questions across the ages. Rather than emphasizing objects’ original context\, this exhibition inserts them into imaginative groupings\, unraveling historical hierarchies and encouraging us to see the collection with fresh eyes.
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SUMMARY:The Metropol Drama
DESCRIPTION:The things we call art can\, at their best\, provide a way to peek a sideways glance at the emotions behind someone else’s human experience. In this relating to others—be they friends\, family\, strangers\, or the citizens of a different time and place—facts and truth go only so far. \nThe Metropol Drama proposes another way of looking at our aesthetic\, economic\, and emotional history—one that it rooted in the contradictions of interaction that produce peoples and states that are smudged and complex\, hybrid and tragic. Having gone by many names\, today we call this social and economic amalgam “cosmopolitanism.” The term can best be thought of as a kind of shorthand for a sensibility where the exchange of capital\, ideas\, and people have provided fertile ground and vulnerabilities for ways of feeling and living. \nThis exhibition is a case study in how the things we call art speak to and embody values. It presents a terrain comprised of traditionally-defined works of art and artifacts\, as well as objects such as legal documents and currencies—forms of negotiation between peoples. The diversity of objects within the exhibition space reflects the ways in which we form the complex subjectivities of selfhood across cultures since the time of the ancients up until the present moment within ourselves.
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SUMMARY:not all realisms: photography\, Africa\, and the long 1960s
DESCRIPTION:The sixties were a long time coming. The sixties keep coming back. For many parts of Africa\, to refer to the 1960s is to gesture broadly toward a time of great transformation: the postcolonial turn. That decade’s beginning marks a wave of national independence movements coming to fruition in all parts of the continent with far-reaching consequences around the globe. However\, that era of sweeping change is bound up in a chain of events long preceding that watershed decade\, with ramifications that reach potently into our present. And any discussions merely offering a colonial/postcolonial dichotomy or framed exclusively through the nation-state betray the far more complex collective and individual experiences of that time and the visual representations taking place within it. \nThis exhibition addresses photography in the context of Africa’s long 1960s—amid resistance\, revolution\, new nationalist and transnational movements\, and the stuff of daily life therein. Focusing on Ghana\, Mali\, and South Africa\, this exhibition features photographic prints\, reprints\, books\, magazines\, posters\, and other material means through which photography’s relationships to real people and events were articulated\, produced\, and circulated. And it looks to contemporary works that engage and reflect on those material histories and might prompt us to ask: did the sixties ever end? \nBridging the division often made between studio photography and reportage—even as many photographers worked across such categories in their practices—not all realisms brings studio and street together. This project explores documentary visions cultivated through international circulation of print media and transnational dialogues\, and examines the multiple lives of single images made by photographers including Ernest Cole\, Malick Sidibé\, James Barnor\, Peter Magubane\, Paul Strand\, Henri Cartier-Bresson\, and more. \nImage: Ernest Cole\, From “House of Bondage\,” 1960s\, Gelatin silver print. Smart Museum of Art\, The University of Chicago\, Gift of the Estate of Lester and Betty Guttman\, 2014.224. © Ernest Cole / Magnum Photo.
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SUMMARY:Monochrome Multitudes
DESCRIPTION:This exhibition offers an expansive narrative of modern monochrome\, or “one color\,” art. Revisiting classic modernist ideas of flatness\, idealized form\, and color\, Monochrome Multitudes opens this fundamental artistic practice up to reveal its surprising creative possibilities. \nThe exhibition features monochromatic groupings—rooms of blue\, white\, yellow\, gray\, black\, and red works respectively—alongside thematic sections where single colors address questions of texture\, the body\, urban space\, and sound. Throughout\, Monochrome Multitudes engages North American art in a global dialogue and emphasizes the significance of multiple media ranging from weaving to wall-painting to video\, and multiple materials including footballs\, pantyhose\, and Vinylite. \nThe exhibition features approximately 100 works\, drawn primarily from the Smart Museum’s and other collections at the University of Chicago\, supplemented by a number of important loans primarily from UChicago alumni and Chicago-area collectors. \nImage: Claire Zeisler\, Triptych\, 1967\, Knotted and tied dyed wool. Smart Museum of Art\, The University of Chicago\, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Joel Starrels\, Sr.\, 1973.213a-c.
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SUMMARY:Unsettled Ground: Art and Environment from the Smart Museum Collection
DESCRIPTION:How has the environment shaped artistic practice\, and how can artistic form teach us to understand our local and planetary environment in new ways? \nThe artworks presented in Unsettled Ground speak to a generative conversation between art and the environment—whether understood as natural\, human\, or something altogether more complex—across multiple scales of time and space. Drawing on photography\, prints\, sculpture\, and mixed media works from the Smart Museum’s permanent collection\, this exhibition positions artists as astute observers of local\, regional\, and global ecologies\, whose work offers new insight into our shared world. Themes of wonder\, agency\, dispossession\, and resistance animate the objects on display\, inviting us to reflect on the vital sustenance offered by the earth\, as well as its fragility\, and our responsibility to the planet and one another. \nOrganized by the Feitler Center for Academic Inquiry\, this exhibition was collaboratively curated by Katerina Korola (PhD ’21) and the undergraduate and graduate students of her seminar\, “Picturing the Earth: Art and Environment in the Modern Era.” Over Fall 2021\, the students worked together to research\, conceptualize\, and develop interpretive materials for the exhibition. Student essays and creative projects\, hosted on the exhibition’s digital platform\, will offer additional insight into select works on display. \nArtists \nArthur Amiotte\, Giovanni Castrucci (Attributed to)\, Mukul Dey\, Mark Dion\, Ruth Duckworth\, Minnie Evans\, Terry Evans\, Walker Evans\, Emile Gallé\, Leonard Havens\, Bertha Evelyn Jaques\, Sheila Hicks\, Yun-Fei Ji\, Glasfabrik Johann Loetz Witwe\, Eli Lotar\, Richard Misrach\, Timothy H. O’Sullivan\, Toshio Shibata\, Hiroshi Sugimoto\, Louis Comfort Tiffany\, Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein\, H. C. Westermann\, and Joseph E. Yoakum. \nAbout \nThis project was overseen by Katerina Korola (PhD ’21)\, Humanities Teaching Fellow at the University of Chicago\, and Berit Ness\, Associate Curator for Academic Engagement.
URL:https://artinamericaguide.com/event/unsettled-ground-art-and-environment-from-the-smart-museum-collection/
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SUMMARY:Bob Thompson: This House is Mine
DESCRIPTION:The University of Chicago’s Smart Museum of Art presents Bob Thompson: This House Is Mine\, the first museum exhibition dedicated to this visionary painter in more than twenty years. \nOrganized by the Colby College Museum of Art\, where it debuted in summer 2021\, the exhibition features more than 85 paintings and works on paper. This House Is Mine centers Bob Thompson’s brief but prolific transatlantic career within expansive art historical narratives and ongoing dialogues about the politics of representation\, charting his enduring influence. \nAbout the exhibition \nBorn in 1937 in Louisville\, Kentucky\, Thompson was recognized during his lifetime for his paintings of figurative complexity and chromatic intensity. Over a mere eight years\, from 1958 to his untimely death at the age of 28 in 1966\, he developed an enigmatic style that used canonical European paintings as points of departure to create radically inventive contemporary allegories. Human and animal figures\, often silhouetted and relatively featureless\, populate mysterious vignettes set in wooded landscapes or haunt theatrically compressed spaces. Thompson reconfigures well-known compositions by European artists such as Piero della Francesca and Francisco de Goya through brilliant acts of formal distortion and elision\, recasting these scenes in sumptuous colors. \nThis House Is Mine examines both Thompson’s formal inventiveness and his engagement with universal themes such as collectivity\, freedom\, bearing witness\, struggle\, justice and music. \nBob Thompson: This House Is Mine is organized by the Colby College Museum of Art\, Waterville\, Maine\, and curated by Diana Tuite. The presentation at the Smart Museum of Art is organized by Jennifer Carty\, Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art with Orianna Cacchione\, Curator of Global Contemporary Art. It will continue its national tour with stops in Atlanta and Los Angeles. The exhibition is generously supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts\, halley k harrisburg and Michael Rosenfeld\, and the Alex Katz Foundation. Principal support for the presentation at the Smart Museum of Art has been provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art. Additional support has been provided by the Museum’s SmartPartners.
URL:https://artinamericaguide.com/event/bob-thompson-this-house-is-mine/
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SUMMARY:The Allure of Matter: Material Art from China
DESCRIPTION:Since the 1980s\, Chinese contemporary artists have cultivated intimate relationships with their materials\, establishing a framework of interpretation revolving around materiality. Their media range from the commonplace to the unconventional\, the natural to the synthetic\, the elemental to the composite: from plastic\, water\, and wood\, to hair\, gunpowder\, and Coca-Cola. \nArtists continue to explore and develop this creative mode\, with some devoting decades of their practice to experiments with a single material. For the first time\, The Allure of Matter brings together works from the past four decades in which conscious material choice has become a symbol of the artists’ expression\, representing this unique trend throughout recent history. \nThe exhibition features approximately 40 monumental works that are complementary in form\, material\, and visual effect. \n\nArtists\nAi Weiwei\, Cai Guo-Qiang\, Chen Zhen\, Gu Dexin\, Gu Wenda\, He Xiangyu\, Hu Xiaoyuan\, Huang Yong Ping\, Jin Shan\, Liang Shaoji\, Lin Tianmiao\, Liu Jianhua\, Liu Wei\, Ma Qiusha\, Shi Hui\, Song Dong\, Sui Jianguo\, Sun Yuan and Peng Yu\, Wang Jin\, Xu Bin\, Yin Xiuzhen\, Zhan Wang\, Zhang Yu\, and Zhu Jinshi. \n\nChicago Presentation\nIn Chicago\, the exhibition is co-presented at the Smart Museum and Wrightwood 659. \n\nNational Tour\n\nLos Angeles County Museum of Art (summer 2019)\nSmart Museum of Art and Wrightwood 659\, Chicago (winter 2020)\nSeattle Art Museum (summer 2020)\nPeabody Essex Museum\, Salem\, Massachusetts (fall 2020)
URL:https://artinamericaguide.com/event/the-allure-of-matter-material-art-from-china/
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SUMMARY:Meleko Mokgosi: Bread\, Butter\, and Power
DESCRIPTION:Meleko Mokgosi’s large-scale episodic painting cycle Bread\, Butter\, and Power forms the newest chapter in his ongoing series Democratic Intuition\, which seeks to explore ideas about the many ways that democratic concepts influence our lives\, loves\, and relationships on macro- and micro-levels. \nThis twenty-panel installation interrogates the theme of feminism in the context of southern Africa\, and considers the consequences of dividing labor practices by gender. \nMokgosi’s approach to storytelling through the form of history painting allows us to compare what we see in the paintings to the realities of inequality and gendered labor division we know from experience. This approach to the content also inspires us to think expansively about politics\, power structures\, and the role of history in the creation of the current nations of southern Africa. \nMeleko Mokgosi: Bread\, Butter\, and Power was organized by the Fowler Museum at UCLA and is curated by Erica P. Jones\, Associate Curator of African Arts. The Smart Museum presentation was overseen by Jennifer Carty\, Associate Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art.
URL:https://artinamericaguide.com/event/meleko-mokgosi-bread-butter-and-power/
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SUMMARY:Samson Young: Silver Moon or Golden Star\, Which Will You Buy Of Me?
DESCRIPTION:In his first U.S. museum exhibition\, Samson Young premieres a trilogy of animated music videos that explore varying concepts of social progress and utopia. \nLoosely taking the idealism displayed at the 1933 World’s Fair in Chicago as a point of departure\, this multimedia exhibition asks how do people adapt to societal changes that they have little control over. For Young\, “progress” as it was defined in the 1933 fair’s subtitle “A Century of Progress” represents a specific variant of aspirational thinking. From cars to shopping malls and houses designed for the future to political change\, progressive thinking has had contrasting consequences as it made its impact felt across the globe in the decades that followed. \nThe exhibition is the culmination of a year-long research project undertaken by the artist that commenced during a residency co-sponsored by the University of Chicago’s Smart Museum and Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society. The exhibition showcases a trilogy of music videos—The Highway is Like a Lion’s Mouth\, Da Da Company\, and the new Houses of Tomorrow—that Young describes as a “song cycle.” Additionally\, the exhibition includes archival materials related to the 1933 World’s Fair and “sound drawings” by the artist.
URL:https://artinamericaguide.com/event/samson-young-silver-moon-or-golden-star-which-will-you-buy-of-me/
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SUMMARY:Cross Currents / Intercambio Cultural
DESCRIPTION:This exhibition explores how issues of Latin American and Latinx identity and place are manifest in the practices of artists working in Chicago and Havana at a moment of social change and strained political relations between the United States and Cuba. \nCross Currents is the result of an artist exchange organized by the National Museum of Mexican Art. Six Chicago-based artists visited Havana in spring 2017 and six Cuban artists visited Chicago in fall 2017 and summer 2018. The work on view reflects the artists’ experiences and observations as they interacted with each other\, curators\, cultural spaces\, and neighborhoods during their trips. The project aims to open pathways of communication and understanding between the two cities and peer artists while also reflecting on their own artistic practices at this moment in time. \n\nARTISTS\nBased in Chicago: \n\nAlberto Aguilar (b. 1974\, Chicago)\nCarlos Barberena (b. 1972\, Nicaragua)\nDianna Frid (b. 1967\, Mexico City)\nRodrigo Lara Zendejas (b. 1981\, Toluca\, Mexico)\nHarold Mendez (b. 1977\, Chicago)\nEdra Soto (b. 1971\, San Juan\, Puerto Rico)\n\nBased in Havana: \n\nHumberto Díaz (b. 1975\, Cuba)\nSusana Pilar Delahante Matienzo (b. 1984\, Cuba)\nDouglas Pérez Castro (b. 1972\, Cuba)\nAlejandro González (b. 1974\, Cuba)\nCelia Irina González Álvarez (b. 1985\, Cuba) and Yunior Aguiar Perdomo (b. 1984\, Cuba)\nRequer (Renier Quer Figueredo\, b. 1983\, Cuba)\n\n\nTOUR\nA version of the exhibition will travel to El Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales\, Havana\, Cuba in January 2020.
URL:https://artinamericaguide.com/event/cross-currents-intercambio-cultural/
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SUMMARY:Tara Donovan: Fieldwork
DESCRIPTION:Fieldwork celebrates American artist Tara Donovan’s distinctive practice that transforms mundane materials like plastic straws\, index cards\, rubber bands\, Slinkys\, and Mylar into elaborate\, mind-bending objects evocative of the natural world. \nDonovan manipulates a material over and over again\, to see what it is capable of becoming\, where it might lead\, and how it migrates from an object of practical use to something surreal or sublime. In some instances\, she reworks a material into both two-dimensional and three-dimensional forms\, engaging with space and light in nuanced and unexpected ways. \nOrganized by the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver\, this exhibition presents\, for the first time\, wall-based and freestanding objects together\, demonstrating how fully the artist reimagines everyday materials. Taken together\, the works in this exhibition demonstrate how order and structure give way to unpredictability and how the mundane cedes to the marvelous. \nTara Donovan was born in 1969 in New York City\, where she currently lives and works. \nTara Donovan: Fieldwork is organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver and curated by Nora Burnett Abrams\, Ellen Bruss Curator and Director of Planning at MCA Denver. The Smart Museum’s presentation is overseen by Alison Gass\, Dana Feitler Director\, and Jennifer Carty\, Associate Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art.
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SUMMARY:Opening reception: Tara Donovan Fieldwork
DESCRIPTION:Public opening of Tara Donovan: Fieldwork at the Smart Museum of Art. \nTara Donovan transforms mundane materials like plastic straws\, index cards\, rubber bands\, Slinkys\, and sheets of mylar into elaborate\, mind-bending objects. The exhibition celebrates the American artist’s distinctive practice through both large-scale three-dimensional forms that are evocative of the natural world and two-dimensional\, wall based works.
URL:https://artinamericaguide.com/event/opening-reception-tara-donovan-fieldwork/
LOCATION:Smart Museum of Art\, 5550 S. Greenwood Avenue\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637\, United States
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