The Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum at Saginaw Valley Point out College provides a new exhibition, “Tradition Interrupted” opening to the public on Saturday, Feb. 19.
“Tradition Interrupted,” arranged by Bedford Gallery at the Lesher Heart for the Arts in Walnut Creek, California, explores how artists weave up to date concepts with classic artwork and craft to make assumed-provoking hybrid photos and objects that have caught the world’s interest.
The 12 artists in this display and their traditions hail from each and every corner of the world: Faig Ahmed (Azerbaijan), Dinh Q. Lê (Vietnam), Serge Attukwei Clottey (Ghana), Jaydan Moore (Virginia), Camille Eskell (New York), Ronna Neuenschwander (Oregon), Mounir Fatmi (France and Morocco), Ramekon O’Arwisters (California), Ana Gómez (Mexico), Anila Quayyum Agha (Pakistan), Shirin Hosseinvand (Iran), Jason Seife (Florida), Suzanne Husky (France and California), and Steven Youthful Lee (Montana). From rugs and mosaic to metalwork and ceramics, they are merging age-aged artwork and craft customs with ground breaking methods that interrupt tradition even though nonetheless collaborating with the past.
“The artists showcased in ‘Tradition Interrupted’ display how they use reminiscences and past experiences, specifically household and cultural traditions, to produce functions of art that converse of them in a personal way,” said Andrea Ondish, curator of schooling. “These artists not only are affected by arts and crafts of their cultural past but merge it with revolutionary techniques of today to make a entire new visible society. This gets a new art background — it is potent and enlightening.”
The artists have shared the trepidation they felt when they conceptualized and established their artwork, but in the course of action of unraveling custom, these artists are embracing it and bringing it forward. Ancestral recollections and political record — at danger of staying forgotten in our rapidly-paced, digital planet — choose heart stage listed here. It is harder to drop sight of a thing that is staring right at you.
Pakistani-American artist Anila Quayyum Agha integrates elaborate Islamic designs with textile procedures these as embroidery and silk-display printing to make architectural light-weight installations. Her large-scale sculptures mimic Moorish mosques, areas girls are typically prohibited from coming into, but the materials she makes use of normally reference a exercise of artwork making historically dominated by gals. Through this irony, Agha works as a result of both the magnificence and suffering tied to cultural traditions.
Artist Mounir Fatmi works by using discarded tech and media objects these types of as typewriters and VHS tapes as resources in his operate to interrogate religion, collective memory and the dichotomy of East as opposed to West. His set up “Maximum Sensation” is comprised of 14 skateboards, every protected with a fragment of a Muslim prayer rug. This mashup of Western well-liked society and Japanese faith implores viewers to rethink prospective commonalities concerning the two, as properly as emphasizes how globalization would make this cross-pollination doable.
The artists of “Tradition Interrupted” endeavor to reconsider the common, ageless truths as nicely as the cozy and unpleasant histories of their heritage. By doing so, they unearth transmissions of the past as a suggests to check out the foreseeable future. The closing activity is left to the viewer: to think about facets of the earlier, embrace recent and future traditions, and reflect on what these shifts and improvements suggest to all of us shifting forward.
“Tradition Interrupted” will be on look at at the Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum from Feb. 19 by June 18. An on-line version of the exhibition will also be available.
Exhibition programming involves the subsequent events. Each session will take location 1-4 p.m.
April 9: Build & Choose a photograph weaving like artist Dinh Q. Lê.
May perhaps 7: Develop & Just take a paper mosaic collage like artist Shirin Hosseninvand
June 4: Generate & Just take a weaving and blended media sculpture like artist Ramekon O’Arwisters.
This show is manufactured doable with grant guidance from the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs.
The Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum is situated on the campus of Saginaw Valley Point out College, 7400 Bay Street, Saginaw, MI. Museum hrs are Monday by Saturday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is totally free. For far more info, get in touch with 989-64-7125 or take a look at the Museum’s internet site at www.marshallfredericks.org.
