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ART: 21
Episode 2: Protest
Legion Arts and the
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art have
teamed up to present free local screenings of the new season of this acclaimed
PBS
series. Each episode lasts an hour.
The second installment (shown at the Museum of Art) examines the ways in which four artists
use their work to picture war, express outrage, and empathize with the
suffering of others.
Politics and the brutality of war underscore many of Nancy Spero’s
paintings. A pioneer of feminist art, she creates easily-read yet
complicated work that makes an unapologetic statement against, and generates
discussion about, the abuse of power, privilege and male dominance.
Landscape photographer An-My Lê's black and white images examine the
impact, representation and meaning of war, as well as the relationship
between military activity and the surrounding terrain. Lê draws on her own
childhood experience as a refugee of the Vietnam War to capture compelling
photographs reflecting our present-day involvement in the Middle East.
Basing his work on research, reflection, and response to horrific events,
Alfredo Jaar’s installations, films and community based projects
communicate a specific experience to his audience, capturing beauty, but
also confronting horror. Jaar identifies the gap between reality and its
representation, and his work explores the limits of art to accurately
represent tragic world events, from genocide to poverty and famine. Jenny
Holzer, well-known for her subversive use of text and poetry, focuses on
cruelty, devastation, consumerist impulses, death and disease in order to
provoke a critical response from the viewer. Whether in an installation of
declassified war documents or a large-scale projection of text from
provocative essays, Holzer presents words in ways that are overwhelming,
exacting, and illustrate the power of language to harm or heal, expose or
conceal.
Thu Oct 25 |
7 pm
Cedar Rapids
Museum of Art | Cedar Rapids
Free | donations welcome
See all four episodes of Art:21: Romance Oct
18 at CSPS; Protest Oct 25 at the Museum of
Art; Ecology Nov 1 at CSPS; and Paradox
Nov 8 at the Museum of Art.
Ticket info
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art
Visit the official PBS
Art:21 Web site
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