Klaus Rinke Extra Time
Artist's Reception - Thursday, Dec 11, 2008, 7- 9pm
Meet the artist. Free and open to the public.
Bentley Gallery, 4161 N. Marshall Way, Scottsdale, AZ 85251
Rinke’s “sculptural paintings” challenge the imaginary and illusory qualities of painting while examining the real and tangible nature of sculpture. Describing his work in an interview with Damien Sausset in 2004, Rinke noted:
“To produce sculptural paintings you need another scale, another texture. No depth, no illusion: the thing is simply there. Painting is always about making present an imaginary world. In contrast, the interesting thing about sculpture is that it really lives. That it is different every time – in the morning, at midday, in the evening and even at night. For all these reasons, I see painting as a medium that is worn out, worn out because it has been used too much.”
During his 30 year teaching tenure at the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf, Rinke worked closely with his lifelong friend, mentor and colleague Joseph Beuys, considered to be one of the most influential if not controversial artists of the twentieth century.
Rooted in minimal conceptual ideas, Rinke has consistently explored the nature of time: the disruption of time, the fluidity of time, as well as the structure and order of time. Moreover, having been born in 1939, in Wattenscheid, Germany, much of his early childhood is infused with memories of clocks as symbols of order, control and exactitude.
“As a child, the railway tracks served as my daily playground; at night the clocks became my moons. Each day the ever-present clock faces slowly ticked their way inexorably towards the eminent hour of departure towards home – like time bombs for us in the midst of a real war – as each evening became a race against time.”
Another important element in Rinke’s concept art is water. Not only does he consider it to be a “material to sculpt,” he also sees water as a medium for the representation of the density and the fluidity of time. Water symbolizes the constant cycle of life and death, decay and renewal, and the movement of energy and memory. Rinke experimented with the materiality of water in numerous “demonstrations” – performance-like installations – such as "Operation Poseidon" (1969) which included drawings, tubes, containers and other devices that examined the linear, non-reversibility of flowing water. In other installations such as "Water Circulation I", "Diversion – A River is Pumped through a Museum", and "A Measure of Time – Slowly Sinking Water-Level II" Rinke uses a museum setting to create a dynamic sculpture that consists of filling twelve vats every day with water drawn from various sites along the Rhine River.
ARTiculations: Rope, String, Thread: the Hierarchy of Art and Craft in Contemporary Art
Dec 4 , 7pm
The words “radical” and “subversive” might not be the first (or second) to come to mind when mentioning knitting, lacemaking, embroidery or other historical “crafts.” Today, however, these fiber techniques enjoy a revolutionary new legitimacy in the contemporary art world. Dr. Elissa Auther will discuss the historical context for the elevation of such practices from “craft” to “art.” What are the artistic and political issues driving this new work? Auther is assistant professor of contemporary art at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. Her book, String, Felt, Thread and the Hierarchy of Art and Craft in American Art, forthcoming from the University of Minnesota Press, focuses on the increased visibility of fiber in American art of the 1960s and 1970s and the changing hierarchical relationship between art and craft. In conjunction with Radical Lace & Subversive Knitting. Stage 2 Theater. $5 members; $7 nonmembers. Call 480-994-ARTS [2787] for tickets. This program is made possible by friends of Gerald (Jerry) Blank, in his memory: Judy Ackerman, Judith Berne, Ann Block, Brunswick Foundation Inc., Joshua Chaet, Joyce Farber, Arlene & Glenn Friedman, Frank Jacobson, Milton Jacobson, Eric Jungermann, Marvin Kantor, Susan Krane, Mark Leibsohn, Bernard Levine, Edward Levy, David Lieberman, Allen Roth, Dan Sachs, Fred Schomer, Emmon Scott, Richard Stern and Lou Weckstein.
Flip a Strip
Dec 11 6:30 pm
Free gallery talks in the Museum with Flip a Strip architects moderated by Nancy Levinson and Trevor Barger.
Architects include: Darren Petrucci, Marlene Imirzian, James Richard, Wendell Burnette, Aaron Herring & Krista Shepherd, Jay Silverberg, and Will Bruder.
SMoCA Friday Night Art Lounge
Dec 12 5 - 8 pm
SMoCA Friday Night Art Lounge with salsa lessons and guided tours of the Pedro Meyer exhibition with guest curator Lara Taubman & curatorial coordinator Claire Carter.
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (SMoCA)
7374 East Second Street
Scottsdale , AZ 85251
Tel.: (480)994-ARTS
Website: www.smoca.org
Email: smoca@sccarts.org
Phoenix Art Museum
Lectures
Josiah McElheny: In Celebration of Last Scattering Surface
A Marriage of Art and Science
Tuesday, Dec 2, 2008, 7 pm
Phoenix Art Museum – Whiteman Hall
Future Arts Research at ASU and Contemporary Forum are honored to welcome MacArthur winner Josiah McElheny who will discuss Last Scattering Surface, his second piece in the Big Bang Series, which describes the creation of the universe. This ten-foot spherical sculpture of gleaming metal and glass floats just inches from the floor of the Greenbaum Lobby and refers to both the history of modernism and the science of the Big Bang. The poetry of the title, Last Scattering Surface, comes directly from the scientific concepts the sculpture represents. This title is the scientific term used to describe the moment when the universe transitioned from the opaque to the transparent which resulted in fluctuations in temperature and density. These seeds of variation have grown by gravity into the galaxies, stars and planets that fill the universe today.
F.A.R. (Future Arts Research) at ASU was created to enhance the environment for the arts in Phoenix and the region by advancing a public conversation through accessible professional artistic initiatives of excellence. F.A.R. has invited scientist David Weinberg, with whom Josiah has been in dialogue for several years during the development of the Big Bang Series, to join in the presentation. Marilu Knode, F.A.R. Associate Director, will moderate the program.
Josiah McElheny, The Last Scattering Surface, 2006
handblown glass, chrome plated aluminum, rigging, electrical lighting
Collection of Phoenix Art Museum, Museum purchase with funds provided by Jan and Howard Hendler
Phoenix Art Museum
McDowell Road & Central Avenue
1625 N. Central Avenue
Phoenix, AZ 85004
Mesa Arts Center
MACFest
Mesa Arts and Culture Festival
Quality Arts and Crafts "MADE BY ME"
FREE to the Public
Every Saturday starting October 4th, 2008, through May 2009
Here in Mesa Arizona on Main Street
10am to 4pm
Deep Ancestry: Inside the Genographic Project
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC LIVE PRESENTS:
DEEP ANCESTRY
WITH GENETICIST, SPENCER WELLS
Wednesday, December 03, 2008
Ikeda Theater
Ticket price: $26.00-$38.00
Wells, 38, is a leading population geneticist, author, and documentary filmmaker who has dedicated much of his career to studying humankind's family tree and closing the gaps in our knowledge of human migration through DNA. Launched in 2005, the five-year Genographic Project represents the ultimate marriage of his two great passions, biology and history. Dr. Wells graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Texas at Austin at the age of 19 going on to pursue his Ph.D. at Harvard University and his post-doctoral training at Stanford University with noted geneticist D. Luca Cavalli-Sforza. He is the writer and presenter of the award-winning PBS/National Geographic documentary, Journey of Man, and author of the book of the same name, published worldwide in 10 languages. He is the recipient of numerous scientific awards, grants and fellowships, including the 2007 Kistler Prize for accomplishment in the field of genetics. In addition to his role as Genographic Project Director, Dr. Wells serves as a National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence. Since the project launched in 2005, his work has taken him to more than three dozen countries, including Chad, Tajikistan, Morocco, and French Polynesia, working with the Project's ten research centers.
Mesa Arts Center
1 East Main Street (in Downtown Mesa)
(Located at the southeast corner of Main and Center Streets)
Mesa, AZ 85211
Tel.: (480) 644-6501
Web: mesaartscenter.com
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