Santa Monica Museum of Art
Bergamot Station Arts Center
2525 Michigan Ave, Building G-1
310.586.6488
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Arnold Mesches, Coming Attractions 1, 2005, Courtesy of the artist
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Jan 23, 2009 – Apr 18, 2009
Tuesdays–Saturdays (11am–6pm)
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Directions: From the 10 West: Take Cloverfield exit onto Cloverfield Blvd., north. Take first right onto Michigan Ave. Michigan Ave. ends at Bergamot Station parking lot. Parking is free.
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The museum presents a special discussion between long-time colleagues Esa-Pekka Salonen and Peter Sellars. Oedipus in Ethiopia: Further Reflections on the Sacred Stravinsky Across an 18-Year Collaboration takes place on Friday, April 3 (7pm, $35). Reservations recommended.
East meets West on many levels as the Santa Monica Museum of Art welcomes octogenarian lion of painting Arnold Mesches to both of its project rooms. Using his characteristic fleshy impasto and markedly literary sensibility, Mesches portrays lush, baroque, and surreal large-scale scenes of decaying grandeur, which may or may not portend more widespread gloom. The main exhibition hall, meanwhile, is fairly overrun with Elias Sime's herd of mesmerizing — and, at times, emotionally difficult — hand-stitched conceptual sculptures and mixed-media assemblage-based paintings. Portraying human, animal, and hybrid spirit forms with soulful craft, Sime both draws inspiration from and transcends the indigenous artistic traditions of Ethiopian culture.
