archiTECHtonica will explore the trope of architecture in contemporary art. Works explore the relationship of technology to architecture and the utopic/distopic legacy of architectural modernism. The exhibition includes painting, photography, new media, sculpture, and site-specific installations by Seung Woo Back, Mildred Howard, Yael Kanarek, Stefan Kürten, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Marco Magg, Driss Ouadahi, Daniel Rozin, Richard Saxton, and Peter Wegner, plus a digital archive of The Snow Show exhibition.

Artist panel discussion: September 28, 7–9 pm.
Room 1B20, Visual Arts Complex

The CU Art Museum recently acquired a masterpiece of video art by Liliana Porter, one of the most significant contemporary Latin-American women artists. The work, titled Fox In The Mirror: A Concert (2007), is on view in the museum's new video gallery and explores human vulnerability and frailty through a narrative of animated ceramic and plastic figurines. Fox In The Mirror includes a moving score written and recorded by Porter's collaborator, Sylvia Meyer.

The CU Art Museum will feature highlights from its permanent collection of over 6,000 works, which span ancient to contemporary art from across the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia. Artists included in the inaugural exhibition include Elizabeth Murray, Diego Rivera, Albrecht Dürer, Jasper Cropsey, George Inness, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Jan Brueghel the Younger, Utagawa Hiroshige, Carrie Mae Weems, and Marsden Hartley, among numerous others.

WALL-TO-WALL-TO-WALL, a new site specific project by Peter Wegner explores ”the wall” as a 3-D object and architectural agent of division, as well as an idiomatic construct. The installation includes 15 site-specific wall paintings throughout the CU Art Museum. The work is an exploration of the relationship between our visual and literal understanding of architecture and our understanding of space, place, and meaning.

Composed by Michael Theodore in collaboration with Michelle Ellsworth, Dwelling is an immersive, site-specific performance work created in celebration of the opening of the CUAM, and in response to the archiTECHtonica exhibition. The work, conceived as a modern ritual, features multiple performers arrayed around the gallery space, as well as a swirling mix of acoustic and electronic music.

Performance Times: 12pm & 3pm

Above, from top to bottom: Seung Woo Back; Utopia #17, 2009 (detail); digital C-print; 70 ¾ x 82 ¾ inches framed; edition 3/5; Courtesy Gana Art Gallery; © Seung Woo Back; Liliana Porter; Fox in the Mirror: A Concert, 2007 (detail of still from DVD); 20:19 seconds; Edition 8/8; Purchase with funds provided by the HBB Foundation and Polly and Mark Addison, CU Art Museum, University of Colorado at Boulder, 2009.8.P; © Liliana Porter; Unidentified Artist; Makonde Peoples (Mozambique, South Africa), Muti WaLipiko (Helmet Mask) 20th Century (detail); wood and human hair; 9 x 7 ½ x 10 inches; Purchase from The Carnegie Fund, CU Art Museum, University of Colorado at Boulder, 94.3.1.P; © CU Art Museum. Peter Wegner; BRAVE W: THE WINNEBAGO PROJECT (detail of work in progress) 2010; Courtesy of the artist and William Griffin Gallery; Image courtesy of the artist, © Peter Wegner; Michael Theodore; Dwelling, 2010 (detail); pinhole photograph, medium format film; Image courtesy of the artist, © Michael Theodore

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