The Orion
Lecture Series in Fine Arts
Through the generous support of the Orion Fund in Fine Arts, the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Victoria, is pleased to present:
Luis Jacob
Assistant Professor, University of Toronto
“Activating the Museum”
12:30 pm Wednesday, February 26
Room 103, UVic’s Fine Arts Building
Free & open to all
Presented by UVic’s Department of Art History and Visual Studies.
For more information, please email arthistory@uvic.ca
Through the generous support of the Orion Fund in Fine Arts, UVic’s Faculty of Fine Arts is pleased to present Luis Jacob, Visiting Artist. All are welcome to attend this free event.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Luis Jacob is a Peruvian-born, Toronto-based artist and curator whose work destabilizes conventions of viewing and invites a collision of meanings. Since his participation as an exhibiting artist in Documenta12 in 2007, he has achieved an international reputation, with shows at the Taipei Biennial, Rotterdam’s Witte de With, the Limerick City Gallery of Art, Spain’s Centro Párraga, Vienna’s Generali Foundation and New York City’s Guggenheim Museum, as well as numerous private galleries.
In 2009 Luis Jacob exhibited a series of large scale canvases — They Sleep with One Eye Open, nos. 1-7 — that appear to watch gallery visitors with an intense gaze. “7 Pictures of Nothing Repeated Four Times, in Gratitude” was staged at the Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, in Mönchengladbach, Germany and addressed abstract expressionist Mark Rothko’s (1903-1970) presence/absence in the history of the museum.
Rothko is a widely celebrated modernist, but what is less well known is his pedagogical activism, and the fact that, politically, he aligned himself with anarchism. They Sleep… attempts to reanimate the spirit of Rothko’s canonical paintings, which are now so ‘familiar’ that many are almost unable to see these artworks with fresh eyes. Join Jacob as he discusses how his paintings represent an opportunity to reconnect with Rothko and dialog once again with his radicality.
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For more information on this lecture, please email visualarts@uvic.ca
About the Orion Fund
Established through the generous gift of an anonymous donor, the Orion Fund in Fine Arts is designed to bring distinguished visitors from other parts of Canada—and the world—to the University of Victoria’s Faculty of Fine Arts, and to make their talents and achievements available to faculty, students, staff and the wider Greater Victoria community who might otherwise not be able to experience their work.
The Orion Fund also exists to encourage institutions outside Canada to invite regular faculty members from our Faculty of Fine Arts to be visiting artists/scholars at their institutions; and to make it possible for Fine Arts faculty members to travel outside Canada to participate in the academic life of foreign institutions and establish connections and relationships with them in order to encourage and foster future exchanges.
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