Mais Oui!
May 10th, 2007As I’ve recently mentioned, each of our school programs has a culminating end-of-the-program event, where the students involved can showcase what they’ve been working on and everyone in the community is invited to come and participate.
Tonight is that event for our French program with Lindenwood University. They’ll be in our galleries, ready to talk about the art work on view. However, the catch is, you have to know (at least a little) French to discuss the works with them. My French is limited to being able to nod and say “oui” so if you can at least do that, you should come. The students put together French descriptions of each of the works they’ll be talking about. Here’s the one for Roni Horn’s Asphere VIII in our Entrance Gallery.
Roni Horn (née en 1955)
Asphère VIII, 1986-90
Acier solide
Collection Hauser et Wirth, Zurich
L’identité est une notion très importante à Roni Horn, qui définit Asphère VIII comme son autoportrait. Il ne s’agit point d’une sphère parfaite, même si la première impression suggère le contraire. Pendant les 5
ans de la création de cette œuvre, l’artiste a travaillé sur d’autres définitions de sa propre identité, comme The Odd Morphology of the Asphère. Horn s’intéresse à l’idée de l’androgynie, alors, quand vous regardez l’oeuvre, pensez à comment elle peut être vue comme masculine et/ou féminine.
If you could understand at least 20% of this, then we’ll see you from 5-7pm tonight.
