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June Issue 2008
Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art
in Charleston, SC, Offers Two Exhibitions for Piccolo Spoleto
Festival
The Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art at the Simons Center for the Arts at the College of Charleston in Charleston, SC, is presenting two exhibits for Piccolo Spoleto including: Emotional Architecture: Azimuth of Fissure Works by Calin Dan, on view in the Halsey Galleries through June 20, 2008, and Richard McMahan's Mini Museum, on view in the Sanders Rotunda at the Addlestone Library, College of Charleston, on view through June 20, 2008.
Calin Dan
Calin Dan's interwoven videos incorporate film, photography, and performance. Included in this exhibition are works from the Emotional Architecture series: sony/wmf/pp (1994-2003), Sample City (2005), Trip (2006), and new work inspired by the artists recent visits to Charleston. The latter is a haunting juxtaposition of our current environment against documentary images from the 1886 earthquake, found within the holdings of the South Carolinian Library at the University of South Carolina.
Dan was born in Arad, Romania, and is now based in Amsterdam. He received an MA in Art History & Theory at the University of Fine Arts, Bucharest, and was the editor of Romania's art magazine Arta. In 1990, Dan began working with a partner Jozif Király in the art group SubReal. Since 1999, he has also been exhibiting solo work, primarily as part of his Emotional Architecture project. Most recently, he has exhibited at the Sydney Biennale, ZKM Karlsruhe, Stroom, the Hague, and the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Bucharest.
Richard McMahan Collection
For the past eighteen years, Richard McMahan has been creating his own personal museum collection featuring miniature replicas of the world's greatest works of art. This Florida savant has an exceptional talent for producing tiny images representing art in museum collections such as the Hermitage, the Prado, the Louvre, the Metropolitan, and the Museum of Modern Art. McMahan began his collection by working from photographs he found in over one hundred years of National Geographic Magazines. Included in this worldwide tour are cave paintings, a rendition of an Egyptian tomb (complete in all of its parts), art nouveau furniture, sculpture, graphic arts, drawings, paintings, and a wry selection of contemporary art. The display has been designed and created by Clemson architecture students, who were assigned the task of developing a methodology for presenting this diverse body of works.
For further information check our SC Institutional Gallery listings, call the Institute at 843/953-5680 or visit (www.halsey.cofc.edu).
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