Paul Ramírez Jonas: ART NOW! Lecture
@ Columbia College Chicago, Film Row Cinema
1104 S Wabash Ave, Room 813, Chicago, IL 60605
Opening Wednesday, April 19th, at 6PM
Join us for the Art Now! lecture on Wednesday, April 19, 2023 at 6pm! Guests of Columbia College Chicago must register. Masks are required.
This is an equestrian monument. Unusual in that it has no rider. Unusual in that it implies the viewer. It is made of cork instead of bronze. Cork is a material that can ‘publish’ an endless number of voices. In opposition to the singular voice of the state, or the singular identity of the hero portrayed riding the horse, or the immutable inscription on the public space that bronze and stone allow. Courtesy of the artist.
After the Monument
This lecture will present examples of Ramírez Jonas’ work that propose different ways in which we can achieve monumentality through participation.
Paul Ramírez Jonas was born in Pomona, California in 1965 and raised in Honduras. Educated at Brown University (BA, 1987) and Rhode Island School of Design (MFA, 1989). Over the past 30 years Paul Ramírez Jonas has sought to challenge the definitions of art and the public and to engineer active audience participation and exchange. He has been made public in galleries, institutions and urban spaces around the world. He is the Art Department Chair at the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning at Cornell; and is represented by Galeria Nara Roesler in Sao Paulo and New York.
Paul Ramírez Jonas, The Commons, 2011, cork, pushpins, notes contributed by the public, 153 x 128 x 64 inches.
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