Museum of Contemporary Art
220 E Chicago Ave
312.280.2660
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Curtis Mann, loudspeaker (Beirut), 2007. Courtesy of the artist.
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Opens Friday Feb 6, 2009 (6–10pm)
Feb 7, 2009 – Mar 1, 2009
Tuesdays (10am–8pm)
Wednesdays–Sundays (10am–5pm)
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- Price
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$10
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Note:
The artist leads a gallery talk on Tuesday, February 17 at 6:30pm.
Like a fever dream, Curtis Mann's bleached and altered found photographs seem to drift outside of time. The images often depict places blighted by violence, but from one work to the next, a large white void swallows the scene and hazy swathes of color lick at what remains like ghostly flames. A few solitary figures inhabit these vanishing landscapes, and the viewer is left to ponder their half-told stories, searching for meaning in the uncertain remnants of the photographic record. There's a doomsday quality to Mann's pictures — not unlike McCarthy's The Road — but they're buoyed by a sense of hope and perseverance. The prints have a certain beauty of their own, as if to say, "Savor the dream, dive deeper."
