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SUMMARY:Felipe Meres: Global Illumination
DESCRIPTION:Felipe Meres: Global Illumination \n\n\n\nCurated by Macarena Deij Prado\, Ph.D. Candidate \n\n\n\nGlobal Illumination\, 2018 HD video\, sound\, 8″Global Illumination departs from a selection of Pre-Columbian objects attributed by the Pumapungo Museum in Cuenca\, Ecuador\, to nine different cultures and which are considered to have anthropomorphic or zoomorphic qualities\, and characteristics related to sexuality. The objects were 3D-scanned at the museum with a digital camera through a process of photogrammetry and from the resulting 3D-models an animation was rendered in 3D-modeling software. The film is titled after one of the chief CGI algorithms responsible for accurately simulating the behavior of light and for producing scenes that are photorealistic to a point where one can’t distinguish them from perceived reality. \n\n\n\nAs Euro-American museums such as the MET\, the British Museum and the Smithsonian increasingly dedicate a great amount of resources to 3D-scan and digitize their collections\, Global Illumination meditates on the effects of such efforts and on the possibilities of representations of ethnographic artifacts in the present. By deploying one of the most advanced 3D-rendering technologies in CGI as well as borrowing from the aesthetic conventions of museum anthropology and auction house ads\, the film probes the realist epistemology and the colonial desire to objectively measure difference that has guided most efforts to represent ethnographic artifacts since the early days of anthropology. The transparency and accuracy of scientific methods are challenged in the film as the hyper-realistic representation of the objects becomes undone and conjure a science-fiction atmosphere—as the objects themselves are rendered opaque by the aesthetic conventions used to represent them. \n\n\n\nFelipe MeresFelipe Meres’s photographs\, films and sculptures explore relationships between structures of meaning and the indeterminate matter that ceaselessly evades their grasp. Whether probing the limits of imaging technologies or charting the social life of materials\, Meres’ work invites the viewer to reconsider the patterns of difference we create to make sense of and regulate the objects\, bodies and behaviors that surround us. \n\n\n\nFelipe Meres was born in Rio de Janeiro\, Brazil in 1988 and currently lives and works in New York. Solo exhibitions include The Telomeric Cut at Mendes Wood DM\, São Paulo (2017) and Fsision at Company Gallery\, NY (2016). His work has been shown in venues such as the Cuenca Biennial\, Ecuador (2018); GAMeC\, Italy (2018) and the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation\, FL (2016). He was an artist in residency at Casa Wabi\, Mexico (2018); ArtCenter/South Florida\, FL (2016) and Escola de Verão\, Capacete\, Rio de Janeiro (2012). He holds an MFA from the Milton Avery School of the Arts at Bard College\, NY and is currently pursuing a PhD in Anthropology at The New School\, NY. He is the recipient of the 2016 Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation Grants & Commissions Award and of the 10th Tom of Finland Foundation Emerging Artist Grand Prize. \n\n\n\nThe exhibition\, artist discussion and reception are free and open to the public. \n\n\n\nThe artist discussion will be moderated by Macarena Deij Prado\, Ph.D. candidate. Additionally\, in collaboration with the University Galleries and the School of Art + Art History Studio Art Program\, Felipe Meres will conduct a graduate student seminar and will also perform graduate studio visits. Felipe’s seminar will depart from Global Illumination and explore issues around the concepts of authorship and identity both in the context of the art world and anthropology museums. 3D technologies will be the guiding frame to reflect on some of the effects of projects that attempt to objectively represent cultural difference.
URL:https://arts.ufl.edu/event/felipe-meres-global-illumination/
LOCATION:Gary R. Libby Focus Gallery\, 1370 Inner Road\, Gainesville\, FL\, 32611\, United States
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SUMMARY:Accumulate\, Classify\, Preserve\, Display: Roberto Obregón Archive from the Carolina and Fernando Eseverri Collection
DESCRIPTION:Exhibition Dates: November 12\, 2019 – February 14\, 2020Opening Reception: November 15\, 2020 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.Closing Reception: February 14\, 2020 from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe exhibition\, which is curated by Jesús Fuenmayor and Kaira M. Cabañas\, is Roberto Obregón’s (1946–2003) first solo exhibition at an arts institution in the United States. This late Venezuelan artist is a key figure of global conceptualism. The exhibition features over three hundred works from the artist’s extensive archive that is now part of the Carolina and Fernando Eseverri Collection in Caracas. Included are multiple drawings\, paintings\, sketches\, collages\, photographs\, manipulated photocopies and other objects. Complementing the UG exhibition\, an additional selection of Obregón’s innovative work will be on view at UF’s Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art. \n\n\n\nThe UG exhibition travels to the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University in Miami\, June 13–September 6\, 2020.Curators: Jesús Fuenmayor\, Kaira M. CabañasCuratorial Assistant: María Paula Varela \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPUBLIC PROGRAMS\n\n\n\n“Achroma vanitas\, Animal image: Roberto Obregón and the Return of Nature in Venezuelan Art”HESCAH Lecture by Luis Pérez-OramasNovember 14\, 6:00 p.m. at The Harn Museum of Art \n\n\n\n“Artist as Researcher: Visualizing Knowledge in the Americas”Panel discussion with art historians Esther Gabara\, Jennifer Josten\, and Sérgio B. Martins.January 23\, 6:00 p.m. at The Harn Museum of Art \n\n\n\nPublic program sponsors include the Harn Eminent Scholar Chair in Art History (HESCAH)\, and UF’s International Center\, Center for Latin American Studies\, Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere\, and the Florida-Brazil Linkage Institute. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGALLERY HOURSTuesday\, Wednesday\, Friday: 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.Thursday: 10 a.m. – 7 p.m.Saturday: 12 p.m. – 4 p.m.Sunday/Monday/Academic Holidays: CLOSED \n\n\n\nPARKINGDaytime parking is available in reserved spaces between Fine Arts Building C (FAC) and Inner Road. From SW 13th Street\, enter campus on Museum Drive. Turn right on Newell Drive\, then right on Inner Road. Turn left into parking lot behind FAC; the first three spaces on the left are reserved for gallery use. Parking permits are issued to gallery visitors in the University Gallery.
URL:https://arts.ufl.edu/event/accumulate-classify-preserve-display-roberto-obregon-archive-from-the-carolina-and-fernando-eseverri-collection/
LOCATION:Gary R. Libby University Gallery\, 400 SW 13th Street\, Gainesville\, FL\, 32611\, United States
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