Contemporary Art

Ragnar Kjartansson: Song opens Thursday, March 10

Justin Hopper | March 9, 2011

Ragnar Kjartansson: Song opens Thursday, March 10 The landscapes of Ragnar Kjartansson’s videos are often similar in their intensity to the famously bleak volcanic blacks and stark whites of his native Iceland. His subject matter often mines metaphors for isolated singularity in the face of bleak or awesome natural surroundings. In 2010’s The Man, for example, an old blues singer…

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Cyprien Gaillard Artist’s Talk

March 3, 2011

To French artist Cyprien Gaillard, the Modernist tower blocks of St. Petersburg are like medieval structures, and the hordes of young men whose fight clubs savagely pummel one another among them resemble 18th-century battlefield paintings. In his etchings and the video Desniansky Raion, all presented as part of You Are Here: Architecture and Experience at the Heinz Architectural Center of…

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