Life on Mars
The Carnegie Museum presents a new exhibit, “Life on Mars,” which asks some difficult questions, while remaining a thoughtful and entertaining discussion. The exhibit debuted May 3rd and will run until January 11th, 2009. Here is some information on the exhibit straight from the blog the exhibit has been maintaining:
Life on Mars, the 2008 Carnegie International, explores the important, yet continually perplexing, question of what it means to be human in the world today. Each artist brings a unique outlook to the question of humanity’s response to a world in which global events challenge and seem to threaten our everyday existence. Included in the exhibition will be some 200 works in diverse media, from painting, sculpture, and drawing to animation, film, installation, and performance.
“For the first time in 112 years the exhibition has a title other than Carnegie International,” said Fogle. “Life on Mars is very much a poetic gesture in terms of thinking about our place in the universe as humans. Are we alone in the universe? Do aliens exist? Or are we, ourselves, the strangers in our own worlds? To me contemporary art is as much about coming to terms with our own world as it is about creating a set of worlds parallel to those that we walk in everyday. The thematic premise behind the show has to do with the idea of the intimate moments in our daily life that we miss by walking through our worlds and not seeing what is right in front of us. It also has to do with the more infinite sense of being part of the larger universe and finding ourselves on the inside and looking out. All of the artists participating in the 2008 Carnegie International have been chosen because their work conveys this sensibility.”
The exhibit features the work of 40 artists representing 17 countries all with their own interpretation of the world we live in today.
The Carnegie Museum is located at 4400 Forbes Avenue in Oakland.
Visit the exhibit’s website to learn more about times, ticket prices and artists involved in the show.
I hope everyone enjoyed their weekends and enjoyed some of the events I posted last week.
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June 11th, 2008 at 8:32 pm
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