Postponed: Sanya Kantarovsky
@ Department of Visual Arts at The University of Chicago
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Monday, March 16th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
This event has been postponed.
Sanya Kantarovsky’s artistic practice revolves around painting, oftentimes incorporating film, animation, sculpture, design, and curatorial projects. His paintings take aim at imagined human subjects, which are often entangled in a variety of discomforts, both psychological and physical. On these painted stages, dissonant frequencies of seduction and repulsion vie for the viewer’s attention. The artist interrogates how desire itself can be rendered, as it contorts the faces of pleading children, leering old men, rootless cosmopolitans, and the hungry masses. Drawing on the history of humanist painting and caricature, Kantarovsky’s subjects seem proud to have been rendered and simultaneously embarrassed to exist at this elevation, embodying a doubt that echoes the artist’s own fraught relationship with the project of painting. This indulgence in affect is marked with a wry self-reflexivity, acknowledging the futility of faithfully transmuting lived experience.
Presented by the Open Practice Committee in the Department of Visual Arts
For any accommodations, please contact: zespouniversity@uchicago.edu
This event was originally planned for 17 February, 2020, and rescheduled to 16 March, 2020.
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