Sun Life Financial Art TalksArt Talk with Janine Antoni
Co-presented by the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Hosted by Robert Enright
In 2005, KW|AG and the Perimeter Institute formed a partnership to bring cutting edge visual art presentations by distinguished artists and cultural figures to Waterloo Region. The commitment to the world of ideas shared by both institutions and the desire to see art as part of the constellation of contemporary discussion was the basis for this new partnership. Each presentation is hosted by Robert Enright in a lecture and interview format. Enright has a distinguished career as a writer, broadcaster, and Editor-at-Large for Border Crossings Magazine. Janine Antoni, the American multi-media artist, will be the ninth speaker in this prestigious series.
Janine Antoni has emerged as one of the most significant sculptors and performance artists of her generation. Born in 1964 in the Bahamas, she was educated at Sarah Lawrence College and the Rhode Island School of Design, from which she graduated with an MFA in 1989. She lives and teaches in New York. Ms. Antoni is admired for a number of works from the 1990s which transformed everyday activities, like eating, sleeping and bathing, into acts and objects that conveyed a startling visual and visceral intensity. Her work "Gnaw" from 1992 is a sculptural installation of two massive cubes, one of lard and the other of chocolate, which bore the marks of her teeth. She subsequently reformed some of this material into sculpted candy boxes and lipstick tubes. Continuing the critique of beauty and its processes, she performed "Loving Care" in which she used her hair as a paint brush to paint a gallery floor with hair dye. In "Lick and Lather" from 1993, she fashioned self-portrait busts out of soap and chocolate, which she set on classical pedestals. "I had the idea that I would feed myself with myself and wash myself with myself" she said in an interview for Art 21. In "Mortar and Pestle", she also documented what may be the most unconventional kiss in the history of art. Antoni has consistently used her own body as a source for memorable images. Her work is about nurturing and sustenance and what we need to do as humans to stay alive, physically, emotionally and psychically. What she makes us realize is that art is a necessary nutrient for all of those conditions.
Janine Antoni has exhibited at the Whitney Museum, the Solomon R.Guggenheim Museum, S.I.T.E. Santa Fe, the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, The Reina Sofia, and the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. She is represented in New York by the Luhring Augustine Gallery.
Tickets: $20
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| Date : | mercredi 13 mai 2009 |
| Heure : | 19:30 - 21:00 |
| Lieu : | Perimeter Institute’s Mike Lazaridis Theatre of Ideas |
| Adresse : | 31 Caroline Street North |
| Ville : | Waterloo, ON |
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