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55th Carnegie International
5.3.08-1.11.09
Featured Artists
- Doug Aitken
- Kai Althoff
- Mark Bradford
- Vija Celmins
- Phil Collins
- Bruce Conner
- Cao Fei
- Peter Fischli & David Weiss
- Ryan Gander
- Daniel Guzmán
- Thomas Hirschhorn
- Richard Hughes
- Mike Kelley
- Friedrich Kunath
- Maria Lassnig
- Sharon Lockhart
- Mark Manders
- Barry McGee
- Mario Merz
- Marisa Merz
- Matthew Monahan
- Rivane Neuenschwander
- Manfred Pernice
- Susan Philipsz
- Noguchi Rika
- Wilhelm Sasnal
- Thomas Schütte
- Ranjani Shettar
- David Shrigley
- Paul Sietsema
- Rudolf Stingel
- Katja Strunz
- Paul Thek
- Wolfgang Tillmans
- Rosemarie Trockel
- Apichatpong Weerasethakul
- Andro Wekua
- Richard Wright
- Haegue Yang
Audio/Video Library
Artist's Lecture: Haegue Yang
Posted 10|13|08
Artist's Lecture: Ryan Gander
Posted 09|29|08
Remainder, a new process/performance by Attack Theatre: Phase one
Posted 09|23|08
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Attack Theatre: Remainder, Phase Two
Thurs., Jan. 8
Attack Theatre dancers return to Carnegie Museum of Art for Phase Two of Remainder, a 10-month process/performance inspired by Life on Mars.
Daily film screenings of Sharon Lockhart's Pine Flat in Carnegie Museum of Art Theater
2:00 p.m. daily
Additional screening Thursdays at 5:00 p.m.
Free with Museum admission
Running time: 138 min.
schedule is subject to change
Life on Mars High School Audience Engagement Project
Friedrich Kunath, Untitled
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There are many works by Friedrich Kunath within the gallery. The one we focused in on is on the far right corner of the wall. It's on a muave canvas and Kunath used watercolor paints. There are two rings converging in the middle, one of which is giving off rainbow hues, the other, black and gray. A silhouette of a man with a hat is walking between the two. There are also formations, almost like those of buildings or castles, in the back of each section, the one on the dark side being black and the ones of the colorful side being magenta and purple. In our opinion, one side is the good in life, the joy and happiness we're able to feel as humans. The other is the pain and the agony we're bound to feel at some point in our lives. Humans are constantly crossing between the two worlds, sometimes lingering in one for a long period of time before finding themselves back in the other. In this day and age, happiness and sadness are flighty feelings that can often be changed or manipulated by something quickly. Pleasure is at our fingertips with technology like computers and cell phones that we're constantly crossing that defined line of content and dispair. These days, happiness can indeed by bought, but it usually turns out to only be temporary fix.
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