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Balázs Kicsiny, a Budapest-based contemporary artist works in mulptiple media, sculpture, film, performance, and painting. Kicsiny creates haunting, large-scale installations, or "frozen performances," that draw on the languages of theater, philosophy, and the visual arts. This well-known artist explores dichotomies of time and space, motion and stillness, history and modernity. As the 2011-12 Henry L. and Natalie E. Freund Visiting Artist, … [Read more...]
Bruno David Gallery is pleased to present Judy Pfaff's first solo exhibition in St. Louis since her exhibition Currents 41 at the Saint Louis Art Museum in 1989. Although internationally renowned as one of the pioneers of installation art, the exhibition at Bruno David Gallery, Recent Work exhibits her adroitness in creating smaller works of art. Melding several kinds of media and methods of art-making together, Pfaff redefines the capacities of … [Read more...]
In Midsection, Jill Downen employs the metaphoric relationship between bodies and buildings in an installation of sculptural forms. The torso, specifically from the bust to the navel, takes on the role of sculpted building blocks situated in relation to the space of the gallery. Jill Downen's art is a focused investigation of the symbiotic relationship between the human body and architecture expressed in temporal installations, drawings, and … [Read more...]
The video work titled "Abiding (Proba Wody)" - (Trial by Water) is by Monika Weiss. Aneta Szylak writes, "Monika Weiss combines traditional techniques such as drawing with performance, video and sound installations. The perpetual aspect of her performances, their slowness, repetitiveness are very much experience oriented. Abiding (Proba Wody), (1999-2000) deals with ritual immersion and separates the performing subject from her usual … [Read more...]
Carmon Colangelo, Dean of the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis, explores the homogenization of American life in a sequence of two-sided prints, inspired by a visit to Orlando Florida. “O Land O” is a playful pastiche and amalgamation of abstract maps, highways, hotels and Disneyesque images of city life. The prints were created at at Flying Horse Editions in Orlando. Bruno David invites you … [Read more...]
An investigation of the relationship between past and present. Through this exploration, this video looks to to portray the human experience of change through light and sound. Working with light and movement in space, the video aims to transcend the subject matter. We are constantly moving, constantly burning and replenishing. This process of constant change is beautiful, elegant in its own right. As disparate as the past traditions of the still … [Read more...]
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Peter Voss, founder of Smart Action talks about artificial intelligence and a calorie restriction diet. Be sure not to miss the very smart telephone recording--at the end of this video. I was recently at the CR Society Conference in Las Vegas, so be watching for more videos on StLouisan about the healthy way of Calorie Restriction. … [Read more...]
Charles Schwall, in his St. Louis studio, talks about his exhibition titled "Source Confluence" featuring a 17 foot wide installation composed of nine separate panels. See Dickson Beall review: West End Word, Oct. 21, Charles Schall at Bruno David Gallery. Follow and "like" Facebook/StLouisan … [Read more...]
Author Laurence Hillman is featured at Jung in the Heartland: Portals to the Sacred II, presented by The C. G. Jung Society of Saint Louis, November 9th and 10th. Hillman speaks on Exploring Astrology and Your Dreams. In this video Hillman discusses his interest in astrology as a tool in understanding human behavior. In addition to Hillman, speakers at Jung in the Heartland, 2011, are Lionel Corbett, Jung in Dialogue With the Soul: Is … [Read more...]
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