The Art Institute of Chicago, Fullerton Hall
111 S Michigan Ave
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Wednesday Feb 18, 2009 (6–7pm)
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$20
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Reservations are required. Call Jenny Gheith at 312.443.3630 to RSVP.
In many ways, Spencer Finch is a fellow traveler of the fêted Olafur Eliasson, shaping light and color in large installations that explore the mysteries and limits of perception. There are crucial differences between their projects, however, which illuminate (so to speak) the distinctiveness of Finch's work and its more delicate yet resonant power. If Eliasson's sensory spectacles are grounded in the intensely experienced present, Finch's atmospheric works dwell on "the fleetingness of a moment" and reach for an elusive sense of place and history. With a scientist's precision, Finch has recreated the evening light of Paris in a Texas exhibition space, for example, and he's even delivered the "rosy-fingered dawn" of Troy from Homer's Iliad using measurements from the city's ruins.
