Kitties & Books
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April 5th, 20189
Category: Away
Savannah || The Gryphon
Speaking of old school charm, southern hospitality and the touch of SCAD being evident all over the historic centre, this is where it all comes together: the Gryphon. SCAD’s upscale tea room that occupies the ground floor of the Scottish Rite building on Madison Square. Add the mystery of Freemasonry and the fact that the building is still the meeting place for various Masonic lodges, and your afternoon tea acquires that ”something extra” that goes beyond cucumber sandwiches and scones (although I would have been happy with just the scones).
April 5th, 2018
Savannah II Old School Charm
A walk to Savannah’s incredibly charming historic district; views of the Kehoe House, Davenport House Museum, Mercer Williams House, houses around Chatham Square, Monterey Square, Calhoun Square, Whitefield Square and Forsyth Park.
Savannah, GA
April 5th, 2018
Savannah || White magic
The Independent Presbyterian Church of Savannah
April 4th, 2018
SCAD || Indoors_No Access_Outdoors
The billboard-size mirror you saw above, was part of a large-scale project:
”No Access” by Tom Burr
aluminum frames with a polished, tinted steel face, 2015
The structures were placed outdoors, throughout SCAD Museum of Art Ruins.
SCAD Museum of Art – Savannah, GA
April 4th, 2018
SCAD || Opera In a Box
”There are twenty-four antique loudspeakers out of which come songs, sounds, arias, and occasional pop tunes. There are almost two thousand records stacked around the room and eight record players, which turn on and off robotically syncing with the soundtrack. The sound of someone moving and sorting albums is heard. The audience cannot enter the room. To see and hear his world, they have to look through windows, holes in the walls, and cracks in the doorways and watch his shadow move around the room.”
If you are intrigued, click on “Opera for a Small Room” for a video clip. This collaboration between Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller, has to be one of the most powerful, multisensory installations I’ve ever experienced, totally immersive, even though one may not even enter the box.
SCAD Museum of Art – Savannah, GA
April 4th, 2018
SCAD || cheeky pinky
SCAD || Moving Mountains
legend
poetry
spoken word
image
inspiration
moving
Stills from ”Moving Mountains”
a film by Yang Fudong
Yang Fudong is an important figure in the contemporary art scene and independent cinema movement in China. His films and photographic work, often derived from traditional Chinese painting, examine tensions between urban and rural, historic and present, worldliness and intellectualism.
The artist often presents works of epic scale and duration that invite the viewer into a richly crafted and layered experience. The exhibition features the U.S. premiere of his most recent film, “Moving Mountains,” a 46-minute, black-and-white film, as well as photographs from the film set, drawings and props.
The film is inspired by the ancient tale of a man, whom some called foolish, for seeking to move a mountain, and extolls the virtues of perseverance and collective action. The artist makes this story a poetic reflection upon human nature and the shifting values to which it can be subjected. Visually, the artist drew inspiration from a masterful ink painting, “The Foolish Old Man Removes the Mountains,” produced in the early 1940s by Xu Beihong. The film mirrors the spirit of endurance that Xu Beihong’s painting extolls. Yet, “Moving Mountains” also explores a new interpretation by taking the old story of the foolish man as an outlet for musings on contemporary realities. The spirit of motherhood is also central in the film and embodied in a character played by the famous Chinese actress Wan Qian.
SCAD Museum of Art – Savannah, GA
April 4th, 2018
SCAD || British Accent
Secret Society
First two images: Pia Camil ‘FADE INTO BLACK’
For the exhibition “Fade Into Black,” Camil presented the latest and largest iteration of her ongoing interest in T-shirts as repositories of cultural information. Specially commissioned by SCAD, one colossal fabric mass made of hundreds of repurposed T-shirts was hanging from the ceiling as a single soft sculptural work. As an object that might resemble a curtain or a theatrical backdrop, the piece featured a gradient leading the visitor from black to white or vice versa.
SCAD Museum of Art – Savannah, GA
April 4th, 2018
SCAD || To-day and To-morrow (and To-morrow…)
One of the pleasures of traveling is the discovery of museums like SCAD. Surprisingly stimulating, visually & intellectually, we found some of the most interesting, powerful and – why not, funny works, both within the brick walls of this magnificent 1853 structure that once housed a railway depot for the Central of Georgia Railway, as well as in the surrounding area outdoors. And to think that, before visiting Savannah, we had never even heard of SCAD!
Christopher Chiappa
LIVESTRONG Savannah, 2018
Melissa Spitz
”Do you need some Xanax? You’ll feel better”, 2013
Melissa Spitz
”I fell down and broke my jaw”, 2012
Toyin Ojih Odutola
Waiting for Supper, 2017
Charcoal, pastel and pencil on paper
Toyin Ojih Odutola
The Abstraction of a Continent, 2017-2018
Charcoal, pastel and pencil on paper
Mariana Castillo Deball, “To-Day, February 20th,”
For her exhibition at the SCAD Museum of Art, Castillo Deball presented the most recent iteration of the project “To-Day,” which combines historical research about a specific site and a physical form that contains this research, which the artist calls a “fictional character.”
This ongoing project is founded in a set of parameters that the artist herself has set:
“Each time the piece takes place, the character is shaped by this one-day history. It is important to mention that the date is decided by the situation and not by the artist. The date always coincides with the official opening of the exhibition, in this case the 20th of February. The documentation and visual material departs from newspapers, travel logs, birthdates, obituaries, holidays, observances and any other traces related to this particular date. ‘To-Day’ is an archive of events, with an arbitrary point in common. The piece will be completed after 365 editions.”
SCAD Museum of Art – Savannah, GA
April 4th, 2018
The Humble Fabulist 
