Exhibition Opening and Artist Talk with Mel Chin
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Mel Chin: Rematch will launch its Houston run on Saturday, January 17, 2015 with a progressive opening at four exhibition venues. The artist will present a series of talks throughout the day, starting with the Blaffer Art Museum at noon, Asia Society Texas Center at 2 pm, and the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston at 4 pm, followed by a party at the Station Museum from 7-10 pm.
Mel Chin: Rematch, organized by the New Orleans Museum of Art, continues through March 21 at the Blaffer Art Museum, and through April 19 at Asia Society Texas Center and Contemporary Arts Museum Houston.
About Mel Chin
Working across media including sculpture, video, drawing, painting, collage, land art, and performance art, Houston-born Mel Chin has adopted mutability as his operating premise over his four-decade career, with works ranging from intimate sculptures and drawings steeped in the legacy of Dada and Surrealism to ambitious site-specific, research-driven, collaborative projects involving scientists, fellow artists, and community members.
Rematch at Asia Society Texas Center
Each of the six Mel Chin works on view at Asia Society Texas Center extends the artist’s connection to the culture, history, and aesthetics of Asia. KNOWMAD (1999) is an installation with interactive experiences centered on mapping, borders, nomadism and the encroachment of technology. The complicated political histories across both western and eastern Asia, and America’s role in them, frame Geometry of Wrath (2005) and Our Strange Flower of Democracy (2005). Scholar’s Nightmare (2001) and Wheel of Death (2002) draw on Confucian and Buddhist philosophies, and their ability to both order and blur reality, while Magnolias in the Moonlight (1976) draws out the yin and yang principles in nature, and its ongoing influence on artists. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue including essays, an extensive illustrated chronology of Chin's career, numerous entries on specific artworks, and a comprehensive biography.
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Mel Chin: Rematch is organized by the New Orleans Museum of Art. Major Support for the touring exhibition is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Creating A Living Legacy Program of the Joan Mitchell Foundation, Suzanne Deal Booth and David G. Booth, the Bertuzzi Family Foundation, Susan and Ralph Brennan, and Stephen Riley.
The exhibition at Asia Society Texas Center is made possible through major support from Chinhui Juhn and Eddie Allen, Mary Lawrence Porter, the City of Houston through Houston Arts Alliance, Nancy C. Allen, Nancy and Robert J. Carney, and The Clayton Fund. Lead funding also provided by Leslie and Brad Bucher, Holland and Jereann Chaney, Anne and Albert Chao, The Favrot Fund, Kathy and Glen Gondo, the Vivian L. Smith Foundation, and Dorothy Carsey Sumner. Additional support given by Marilyn Oshman, the Oshman Foundation, and Abrahams Oriental Rugs. Funding is also provided through contributions by Friends of Exhibitions at Asia Society Texas Center.
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