Through May 6, 2007
Dorrance Special Exhibition Galleries, first floor
This retrospective exhibition celebrates the life and work of Thomas Chimes (American, born 1921), one of the most important and influential artists to have emerged on the Philadelphia art scene in the past fifty years. The diverse body of work that the artist has produced since the late 1950s—which includes crucifixion paintings, metal boxes, a celebrated series of panel portraits, and the more recent white paintings—reveals his remarkable ability to periodically reinvent himself, and underscores the conceptual nature of his artistic practice. Chimes has found inspiration for his evocative imagery in the writings of Alfred Jarry, Antonin Artaud, James Joyce, and other literary heroes, as well as in the art of Henri Matisse, Vincent van Gogh, Thomas Eakins, and Marcel Duchamp. The works of these artists are strongly represented in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, which Chimes first visited in 1931 and today considers his second home.
On view through June 24, 2007
For years many extraordinary artists have combined words and images in inventive ways, calling attention to the artistic power of language and challenging audiences to rethink the interplay between visual and verbal communication. A new installation at the Philadelphia Museum of Art gathers works in which words are conceived as both communication tools and physical objects. Out of Words, the second in the Museum’s “Notations” series, highlights conceptual works from the collection, including a recent acquisition, the 30 x 30-foot installation Abraham - L'ami de Dieu (Abraham - Friend of God) by Georges Adéagbo.
The exhibition, the title of which was inspired in part by Wallace Stevens’ 1947 poem, “Men Made Out of Words,”is on view in the Gisela and Dennis Alter Gallery (176) from November 24, 2006 through June 24, 2007. From large cursive pink neon and thickly stenciled black paint to more intimately scaled printed texts and handwritten notes, the pieces in a range of media dating from the 1960s to the present explore the use of texts in contemporary art.
April 20 - July 22, 2007
“I see Landscape as a form of cultural mediation, a social construction that informs the conventions of its representation.”
- Marine Hugonnier
This spring the Philadelphia Museum of Art will present Live Cinema/Marine Hugonnier: Trilogy, a series of 16mm films transferred to DVD that explores the ways in which images of the landscape influence the observer’s experience of it, and conversely, how history or ideology can shape the perception of a landscape. Filmed on three continents over the past five years, Hugonnier’s films raise questions about the process of viewing and engage what the artist refers to as the “politics of vision.” On view from April 20 through July 22, Hugonnier's Trilogy is the third installment of Live Cinema, an exhibition series exploring the vast production of single-channel video and film work by a diverse group of local, national and international artists in the Museum's Film and Video Gallery (Gallery 179).
Special Events
Thursday, April 12, 2007, 6 pm
Van Pelt Auditorium
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Free tickets required.
Auditorium admission on a first-come, first-served basis; seating begins at 5:30 pm.
For tickets or more information, call (215) 235-SHOW (7469).
Friday, April 13, 2007, 6 pm
Van Pelt Auditorium
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Free tickets required after Museum admission
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