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21/3/2012

Mapping Gothic France

FLLAC - The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie

The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College will present the innovative and engaging exhibition, Space, Time, and Narrative: Mapping Gothic France, on view from March 23 to May 20, 2012.

Curator Andrew Tallon, assistant professor of art at Vassar College, noted that: “viewers will be invited to experience Gothic architecture in the parallel dimensions of space, time, and narrative through texts, large-scale digital projections, and interactive virtual-reality images.” A series of projected images will transform the atrium of the Art Center into a “virtual” cathedral.

Assisting Tallon in the creation of the exhibition are Ani Kodzhabasheva (Vassar class of 2012) and the students from Tallon’s spring semester seminar in Medieval Architecture.

This exhibition will mark the public launch of Mapping Gothic France (mappinggothicfrance.org), developed as a four-year joint project between Tallon and Columbia University professor Stephen Murray, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The website features a database of over 10,000 images, texts, and historical maps that will allow users to understand the great architectural achievements of the 12th and 13th centuries in France in tandem with the key geopolitical developments of the era.

On Thursday, March 22, there will be an exhibition preview and reception from 6:00-9:00pm at the Art Center. Students from Tallon’s seminar will be stationed throughout the exhibition to interpret the works of art for the public. The student ensemble, the Vassar Camerata, directed by Michael Hofmann (Vassar class of 2013), will perform musical selections by Machaut and de la Halle. All events are free and open to the public.

About Mapping Gothic France
The four-year Mapping Gothic France (www.mappinggothicfrance.org) project was initiated by Andrew Tallon, Assistant Professor of Art at Vassar College and Stephen Murray, Professor of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University and funded through the generosity of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

The website is designed for use as an educational and research tool by students and scholars. It provides the user with “new ways to understand the relationship of hundreds of buildings conventionally described as ‘Gothic’—in terms of sameness and difference, found in the forms of multiple buildings within a defined period of time and space that corresponds to the advent of the nation of France,” according to its creators. In 2010, the website received Horizon Interactive Award.

Murray and Tallon noted that, “Whereas pictures can be satisfactorily represented in two dimensions on a computer screen, space—especially Gothic space—demands a different approach, one which embraces not only the architectonic volume but also time and narrative. Mapping Gothic France builds upon a theoretical framework derived from the work of Henri Lefèbvre (The Production of Space) that seeks to establish linkages between the architectural space of individual buildings, geo-political space, and the social space resulting from the interaction (collaboration and conflict) between multiple agents—builders and users.”

Mapping Gothic France was developed within the framework of collaboration between the Media Center for Art History in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University, the Visual Resources Library at Vassar College, and the Columbia University Libraries.

PRESS CONTACT: Emily Darrow, Associate Director of Media Relations, Vassar College, (845) 437-7690, emdarrow@vassar.edu

Thursday, March 22 6:00pm Exhibition preview and reception Art Center Atrium

FLLAC - The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center
124 Raymond Ave - Poughkeepsie USA
The Art Center is open to the public Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, 10:00am–5:00pm;
Thursday, 10:00am–9:00pm; and Sunday, 1:00–5:00pm.
Admission to the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center is free

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