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Future Exhibitions
Currents: Complaints Choir
October 8, 2010 - January 16, 2011
Street Talk: Aminah's Mt. Vernon Avenue
Opens May 20, 2011
Shared Intelligence: American Painting and the Photograph
February 4 – April 24, 2011
Currents: Stephanie Syjuco
Opens June 24, 2011
Currents: Complaints Choir
October 8, 2010 - January 16, 2011
One day, artists Tellervo Kalleinen and Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen thought about how often people complain. In the Finnish vocabulary there is an expression "Valituskuoro". It means "complaints choir" and it is used to describe situations where a lot of people are complaining simultaneously. They had an idea. What if they put together an actual choir and had people sing their complaints?
After the success of their first effort in Birmingham, England, the artists received numerous letters, asking them to initiate Complaints Choirs around the world. To meet the demand for Complaints Choirs worldwide, Kalleinen & Kochta-Kalleinen have created a web site to encourage organizations to form their own complaints choirs. CMA is excited to be able to facilitate a Complaints Choir for the central Ohio community.
Local musician, David Holm, will set the complaints submitted by the public to music and will compose an original song. The piece will be performed for the public in June. Jeff Sims, CMA Educator for Adult Programs and Multimedia Producer, will film rehearsals and the performance. His video will be on view at the Museum.
This project was initiated by artists Tellervo Kalleinen and Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen in 2005. See all the complaints choirs of the world at www.complaintschoir.org.
Shared Intelligence: American Painting and the Photograph
February 4 – April 24, 2011
The painting and the photograph have had a long relationship in American art. Since its invention, photography has greatly impacted the way we see the world. Shared Intelligence: American Painting and the Photograph explores the many ways visual artists have been inspired by the photograph. The exhibition of more than 75 paintings and photographs focuses on the work of American painters for whom the photograph has been essential, beginning with the acclaimed 19th century realist Thomas Eakins and continuing through to contemporary art, including such masters as Frederic Remington, Charles Sheeler, Georgia O’Keeffe, Norman Rockwell, Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Chuck Close, David Hockney, and Sherrie Levine. Major works by such ground-breaking photographers as Eadweard Muybridge, Alfred Stieglitz, Man Ray, Edward Weston, Walker Evans, and Margaret Bourke-White will also be included.
Street Talk: Aminah's Mt. Vernon Avenue
Opening May 20, 2011
Aminah Robinson's RagGonNons, paintings, drawings, hogmawg sculptures, prints and books about Mt. Vernon Avenue, bring to life the heart of this African-American community that flourished on the eastside of Columbus until the early 1960s. The work typifies Aminah's passion with remembering and documenting the past in order to move forward. Aminah emphasizes the economic vibrancy and social activity of the neighborhood and also raises complex racial and political issues that were at play at the time. At the heart of the exhibition, are the scroll-like Memory Maps in which Aminah records every detail of the lively street life of Mt. Vernon Avenue. The street's storefronts, churches, theaters, and offices are the backdrop for Aminah's depictions of The Brownyskin Man, Umbrella Man, Organgrinder and dozens of other figures that populate the street. Many of these figures are also represented in sculptures, prints, and cloth paintings that demonstrate the artist's use of diverse media and techniques. The Memory Maps became the basis for Aminah's published book, A Street Called Home. Visitors will be able to gain insight into Aminah's creative process by examining her original art for the book and the study that preceded it. The time span represented in the work ranges from the early part of the twentieth century to the 1960s when construction of the interstate highway, urban planning, and civil rights demonstrations dramatically changed the tenor of the neighborhood. In an effort to bring the work alive and provide context for the art, we are video-taping individuals who have memories and stories about the street.
Currents: Stephanie Syjuco
Opens June 24, 2011
Stephanie Syjuco has been working with the idea of the political economy of fakes and forgeries. Two recent exhibitions, the "Counterfeit Crochet Project" which recreated Chanel and other name brand hand bags, etc in crochet, and the "Frieze Art Fair Copy Stand", which was a stand at the Fair created by Syjuco and a team of artists that re-created works for sale at the Fair are examples of this idea. The artist also worked with PS1 on their 1969 exhibition by re-creating two sculptures that were too fragile to be included in the show. Stephanie Syjuco creates “social sculpture” which means that she uses social media such as Facebook to collect the found objects included in her work.
