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- Title: PAST PERFECT/FUTURE TENSE: AUTHENTICITY AND REPLICATION
- Host Department: Institute for the Humanities
- Date: 09/17/2009 - 10/30/2009
- Time: 09:00 AM - 5:00 PM
- Location: 202 S. Thayer St, Ann Arbor, MI
Gallery is Room 1010 - Contact Information: Amanda Krugliak (mandak@umich.edu; ph; 734 936-3518)
- Description: Exhibit of new work by Richard Barnes Opening Reception, September 17, 6:30-8 PM Gallery hours: Mon-Fri, 9 AM - 5 PM
- Detailed Information:
PAST PERFECT/FUTURE TENSE: AUTHENTICITY AND REPLICATION
Richard Barnes, the Institute for the Humanities’ 2009 Paula and Edwin Sidman Fellow in the Arts, presents innovative new work inspired by the University of Michigan Exhibits Museum’s paleontology and anthropology collections, and the Museum of Zoology’s ornithology collection.
In this unique installation, Barnes considers the nature of things from collection and display to extinction. A prehistoric skeletal whale juxtaposes a mound of rubber molds and resin casts, examining questions of replication and authenticity, what we save and what we lose. Both lyrical and visceral, Barnes’ work engages us in a provocative conversation about museological practice from behind the scenes, capturing the inextricable relationship between human gesture and the inevitability of extinction.
This exhibition will coincide with the UM LSA Theme Semester Meaningful Objects: Museums and the Academy. The Institute's exhibit is part of a three-venue project highlighting different aspects of Barnes’s work in partnership with the UM Museum of Art and, at the Cranbrook Institute of Science in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, an exhibit called Artology.
Related event: Richard Barnes will deliver the School of Art and Design's Penny Stamps Lecture on September17, 5 PM, in the Michigan Theater, 603 E. Liberty St., Ann Arbor.
