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28/08 - 08/01

The Blind Architect Meets Rembrandt

Hamilton Canada

RECEPTION: September 16, 6 - 8 pm

ARTIST'S TALK: September 23, 6-8 pm

São Paulo-based artist/theoretical architect Alexander Pilis will present his 2004 video-work The Blind Architect Meets Rembrandt as the “centrepiece” for a site-responsive installation. He will be working with Senior Curator Ihor Holubizky to develop and articulate a dialogue between the explicit and implicit visual texts in his video-work, and works from the Museum’s European historical, modern, and contemporary collection. Including; Gerrit Dou (Dutch, 1613-1675), Giovanni Piranesi (Italian, 1720-1778), Ludwig Meidner (German, 1884-1966), Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973), Tsuguharu Foujita (Japanese, 1886-1968), Jean Gorin (French, 1899-1981), David Hockney (British b.1937), and Margaret Priest (British b.1944.)

Over the past 25 years Alexander Pilis has explored a research praxis through exhibitions, workshops and curatorial projects under the aegis and metaphor of “Architecture Parallax”; posing questions about visual literacy and cognition, and the modernization of vision that is woven through the built environment (architecture and the city). More recently, Pilis has delved into these concerns through the modes and strategies of representation in the history of art.
 
The exhibition is mounted in the Levy Gallery: the built-in interior room and perimeter gallery resonate with the tracking format and site of the Pilis video, conceived and shot during a residency in Banff. In the video a “blind architect” repeatedly walks around the perimeter of the space, which is empty with the exception of a single reproduction of a Rembrandt portrait pinned to a wall. On the final circuit, the “blind architect” stops to view the image—hence, breaking the premise of blindness.
The Blind Architect Meets Rembrandt<br />Alexander Pilis

The Blind Architect Meets Rembrandt
Alexander Pilis

The Blind Architect Meets Rembrandt<br />Alexander Pilis

The Blind Architect Meets Rembrandt
Alexander Pilis

The Blind Architect Meets Rembrandt<br />Alexander Pilis

The Blind Architect Meets Rembrandt
Alexander Pilis

published at 10/09/2010

The Blind Architect Meets Rembrandt

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from 28/08/2010
to 08/01/2011

where

McMaster Museum of Art
University Avenue, McMaster University
1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, ON L8S 4L6
Tue/Wed/Fri 11 am to 5 pm, Thursday 11 am to 7 pm, Sat 12 to 5 pm, Closed Sun, Mon, statutory holidays, and for one week between Christmas and New Year's Day.
(905) 525-9140

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Alexander Pilis
Sao Paulo Brazil

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