The most substantial exhibition to date devoted to Paul Pfeiffer's video, photography, and sculpture and the U.S. premiere of Runa Islam's short film (22 min.), Rapid Eye Movement (2002).
Two exhibitions
Opening Receptions: Friday, Feb. 7, 5:30-7:30PM
Paul Pfeiffer
Main Galleries
Curators: Jane Farver and Dominic Molon
Artist's Talk: Saturday, Feb. 8, 1PM
This is the most substantial exhibition to date devoted to Paul Pfeiffer's video, photography, and sculpture. Pfeiffer's work addresses the many problematic aspects of present and future worlds dominated by astonishing revolutions in visual representation, while exploring universal themes of identity, race, and culture, often through imagery from sports, film, and popular culture. The exhibition premieres a number of new works including Corner Piece, Live Evil, and Poltergeist, as well as the remarkable Morning After the Deluge in which sunrise and sunset are impossibly yet scintillatingly fused into one image
Pfeiffer, winner of the Bucksbaum award from the 2000 Whitney Museum of American Art Biennial, is currently an artist-in-residence at MIT.
Paul Pfeiffer was jointly organized by the MIT List Visual Arts Center and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. This exhibition has been generously sponsored by GUCCI and ArtPace, A Foundation for Contemporary Art, San Antonio. The Cambridge presentation is made possible by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and the Council for the Arts at MIT.
Media Sponsor for Paul Pfeiffer The Boston Phoenix
Image:
Paul Pfeiffer, Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (6) 2001, ìDigital duraflex print 60" x 48" unframed
Courtesy of the Artist and The Project, New York and Los Angeles
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Film Screening
Runa Islam: Rapid Eye Movement
Bakalar Gallery
This is the U.S. premiere of Runa Islam's short film (22 min.), Rapid Eye Movement (2002). Islam, a London-based artist, makes short films and filmic installations to excavate and reveal the many aspects of film's language. Her work serves to include the very seductive qualities of film, which is ordinarily occluded. In her newest work Rapid Eye Movement, Islam takes the understanding of film as a form of collective dreaming as a starting point for a luscious cinematic adventure.
The List Center's programs are generously supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and the Council for the Arts at MIT. Special thanks to the British Consulate-General, Boston, Massachusetts.
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