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The
Enrique Martínez Celaya: Poetry in Process residency
will include an extended visit to Colorado by the artist, during
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time he will create a large painting in the CU Art Museum as
part of the solo exhibition. Martinez Celaya will additionally
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The
Martinez Celaya residency is the inaugural Colorado Contemporary Arts
Collaboration (CCAC) Artist Residency at the CU Art Museum sponsored
by Kent and Vicki Logan. At the exhibition opening, scheduled for Thursday September 9, from 6–8pm, viewers will be able to see the preliminary phase of the artist’s site-specific painting as a “cartoon.” During the first week of the exhibition, visitors will be able to view the working process of the artist as he completes the site-specific wall painting that will incorporate violet flowers and earth with other paint media. |
THE
EXHIBITION, RESIDENCY, AND RELATED LECTURES, ENRIQUE MARTÍNEZ
CELAYA: POETRY IN PROCESS, will
investigate the complex cross-disciplinary approach to art-making
of this important emerging Cuban-American artist and will feature
major works, created in sculpture, painting, photography, poetry,
drawing, and philosophy. The exhibition will present key works
surrounded by the multiple preparatory and generative sketches,
photographs and writings, from which the artist generates his larger
works, and will explore themes such as Memory, Witness, Voyage,
Exile, and Coming of Age as they are threaded throughout the artist’s
body of work. Enrique Martínez Celaya currently maintains a studio in Southern California and was recently featured in the May 2003 issue of Art In America. His work has been exhibited widely in the United States, Europe and Latin America, and is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and numerous other public and private collections. |
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Martinez Celaya Unbroken Poetry, 1999 oil, tar, feathers and fabric on canvas 94 x 94" Private Collection, New York. © Enrique Martinez Celaya |
Enrique
Martinez Celaya My Boy (self),2003 watercolor and ink on paper 7.75 x 8.75" Collection of Ian Wiener and Jenny Heitz, Los Angeles. © Enrique Martinez Celaya |
Enrique
Martinez Celaya Innocence,2002 100 x 78" Courtesy of Griffin Contemporary © Enrique Martinez Celaya |
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RECEPTION: Thursday, September 9, 6-8pm |
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_________________________________________________ This exhibition features the work of seminal Bay Area inter-media artist, Paul DeMarinis, whose provocative work explores musicality, sound, technology, and interactivity. On view are two key works from the series titled Gray Matter which uses the interaction of body and electricity to make music. These works were specifically selected to accompany the exhibition Nadia Boulanger: An Enduring Legacy of Music and Spirit. |
Paul DeMarinis has been working as an electronic media artist since 1971 and has created numerous performance works, sound and computer installations and interactive electronic inventions. He has performed internationally, at The Kitchen, Festival d'Automne a Paris, Het Apollohuis in Holland and at Ars Electronica in Linz and created music for Merce Cunningham Dance Co. His interactive audio artworks have been shown at the I.C.C. in Tokyo, Bravin Post Lee Gallery in New York and The Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco. Much of his work involves speech processed and synthesized by computers, available on the Lovely Music Ltd. compact disc “Music as a Second Language”, and the Apollohuis CD “A Listener’s Companion.” |
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X H I B I T I O N Nadia Boulanger: An Enduring Legacy of Music and Spirit is being planned concurrently with a major international conference on the CU Boulder campus honoring the influence of illustrious 20th century French conductor, performer and teacher, Nadia Boulanger. Nadia Boulanger taught many avant-garde composers and sound artists, including Phillip Glass, Aaron Copland, Thea Musgrave, Quincy Jones, Astor Piazzolla, and others. The exhibition features rare and unusual photographs, scores, posters, and artwork that document the work and life of Nadia Boulanger. The Nadia Boulanger conference dates are: October 7 - 9, 2004. Please contact Professor Tom Riis, Director, American Music Research Center, College of Music at amrc@colorado.edu for more information about the Nadia Boulanger conference. The American Music Research Center is a rare music resource dedicated to exploring and preserving the rich traditions of American music. The Center shares its activities with faculty, students and the public through concerts, publications and sponsorship of scholarly events. |
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Information Please contact, CU Art Museum Director: Lisa Tamiris Becker at 303-492-8003 or lisa.becker@colorado.edu |