Pablo Vargas Lugo
Dates: 11/14/2009 - 2/21/2010
Location: The Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX
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Times: 8am-8pm
Phone: 512-475-6784
Address:
1 University Station D1303
Austin, TX
Description:
Pablo Vargas Lugo¡¯s WorkSpace project, Eclipses for Austin, will address the feelings of belonging that collective activities inspire in people ? despite their unique backgrounds. The rarity of total eclipses of the sun provokes astonishment, anxiety, hope, joy, and fear in people, and compels them to question their place and condition in relation to time and place. For Lugo¡¯s WorkSpace project, 800 people will gather in the stands of UT¡¯s Darrel K. Royal Texas Memorial Stadium and will stage ten solar eclipses that will occur in Texas over the course of the next 340 years. Participants will hold up black and white signs in a choreographed simulation of each eclipse. The performances will be recorded in both a video and newspaper which museum visitors will be able to keep as a record of their communal experience.
Madonnas from the Cardenas Collection
Dates: 11/21/2009 - 3/7/2010
Location: The Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX
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Times: 8am-8pm
Phone: 512-475-6784
Address:
1 University Station D1303
Austin, TX
Description:
The Virgen de Guadalupe became a symbol of identity and empowerment for artists of the Chicano Art Movement. This exhibition puts a spin on traditional understandings of Marian iconography by examining images of the Virgen de Guadalupe in Chicano prints and posters spanning the late 1960s through the 1990s from the Gilberto Cardenas Collection of Latino Art, on long-term loan to the Blanton.
The Sleep of Reason: Goya¡¯s Influence in Spanish America
Dates: 11/28/2009 - 3/7/2010
Location: The Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX
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Times: 8am-8pm
Phone: 512-475-6784
Address:
1 University Station D1303
Austin, TX
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The nineteenth-century Spanish artist Fracisco Goya, with his disquieting depictions of violence and corruption and his mastery of graphic techniques, inspired many twentieth-century artists of Spanish America. The stark style and unflinching approach to reality in Goya¡¯s prints provided a model for artists wishing to convey the darker aspects of modern life. Spanish American artists felt a sense of cultural affinity for Goya and drew from his example in depicting subjects such as warfare, madness, and alienation. This selection of drawings and prints from the Blanton¡¯s permanent collection features works by artists who were inspired by Goya, including Jos¨¦ Luis Cuevas (Mexico), Ernesto Deira (Argentina), Armando Morales (Nicaragua), and Augusto Rend¨®n (Colombia), among others. It complements the exhibition Goya: The Dawn of Modern Art, shown concurrently in the European print galleries.
Goya¡¯s Prints: The Dawn of Modern Art
Dates: 11/28/2009 - 3/7/2010
Location: The Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX
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Times: 8am-8pm
Phone: 512-475-6784
Address:
1 University Station D1303
Austin, TX
Description:
Modern art is often said to begin not just with Goya¡¯s art but with his prints in particular. The Blanton possesses some thirty impressions, representing each of the artist¡¯s major series in states and editions from the earliest to latest. They include several great rarities, like El Embozado, probably left unfinished at his death, and recent acquisitions, like a brilliant proof impression from his visionary series, Los Proverbios. This exhibition will unite these works for the first time, providing an opportunity both to appreciate his genius and to assess relative quality in his etchings.
Desire
Dates: 2/5/2010 - 4/25/2010
Location: The Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX
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Times: 8am-8pm
Phone: 512-475-6784
Address:
1 University Station D1303
Austin, TX
Description:
With a stellar roster of international contemporary artists working in all media, this thematic exhibition will explore the notion of desire and how artists have portrayed it, along with its related psychological states: longing, arousal, infatuation, despair, anger, whimsy, etc. Included are video works by Bill Viola, Isaac Julien and Amy Globus; paintings by Marilyn Minter, Georgann Deen and Gajin Fugita; photo-based works by Glenn Ligon, Miguel Angel Rojas and Olaf Breuning; sculpture by James Drake, Petah Coyne and Valeska Soares; drawings by Danica Phelps and Tracey Emin; and more. New works will be created specifically for the show by Adam Pendleton, Peter Saul, Robert Kushner, and Kirsten Hassenfeld, and an accompanying selection of historic prints drawn from the Blanton¡¯s holdings will exemplify the enduring nature of this theme. Desire will have an illustrated catalogue with texts on desire by a diverse group of writers, and will be accompanied by a full menu of interdisciplinary programs.Desire is organized by the Blanton Museum of Art. Funding for the exhibition is provided, in part, by a grant from Houston Endowment Inc. in honor of Melissa Jones for the presentation of contemporary art at the Blanton.