Renaissance Society (Venue Partner)
The University of Chicago, Cobb Hall, 4th floor
5811 South Ellis Avenue, room 418
773 702 8670
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Matt Saunders, Interview (Hertha Thiele 1975) #1, 2010 (contact print from drawn negative) 7.5 x 9.4 inches
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Sunday Feb 28, 2010 (4–7pm)
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Directions: Green Line - Direction: Ashland / 63, to Garfield Station. X55 - Garfield Express - Direction: Museum of Science & Industry, to Ellis Avenue stop. Walk to 5811 South Ellis Avenue.
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The Renaissance Society presents an exhibition by Matt Saunders, February 28 to April 11, 2010
Opening reception
Sunday February 28, 4:00 to 7:00pm
There will be a talk with the artist from 5-6 pm, in Kent Hall room 120 (across the yard from the gallery.)
For his exhibition at The Renaissance Society—the artist’s first solo museum show—Berlin–based Matt Saunders will present several interrelated new works. In drawings, paintings, short films, and photographs, Saunders recasts images, often taken from film or television, into new narratives about portraiture and spectatorship. At the same time, he pushes boundaries between media to tell a parallel story of how images are made, are repeated, and are embodied in materials. At the Renaissance Society, Saunders will debut a new multichannel animated film, which moves through a cycle of scenes and notations. A new series of photographs made from drawn and painted “negatives” comprises a kind of ersatz portrait gallery, flush with a diverse cast of characters – from workers biking through the streets of Berlin to an early Los Alamos scientist, from a largely forgotten East German actress to the highest paid British television actor of the ’60s. As a group, they make a broken, associative record of twentieth-century lives.
