Home LUXURY LIVING CURRENT ISSUE Special Offers Subscribe Media Kit Contact Us May/June '05 EventScene June-July Through June 12 Exhibit: Monet to Matisse: The Triumph of Impressionism and the Avant Garde. Columbus Museum of Art, 480 E. Broad St. A collection of 78 European modernist works by Monet, Matisse, Renoir, Pissarro, Kirchner, Nolde, Ensor and Klee shine as the core of this exhibition whose goal is to reintroduce Columbus to how the private passion of collectors becomes a public treasure for the community. Included in the exhibition are important Impressionist, German Expressionist, Cubist and Fauvist works. Impressionism incited a revolution in art that evolved into modernism. Come to the museum to experience how Impressionism transformed Western art. 614-221-4848, www.columbusmuseum.org Through June 5 Exhibit: Aminah Robinson’s Community Connections. Columbus Museum of Art, 480 E. Broad St. Informed by careful research and constant attention to detail, Aminah Robinson’s cloth artwork, sculptures, books and journals reflect her careful research of Columbus communities and her extended residencies in Africa, the Middle East and South America. Her work captures the spirit of each of these unique experiences but, at the same time, emphasizes the similarities that connect community, family and the human spirit throughout the world. 614-221-4848, www.columbusmuseum.org Columbus' Metropolitan Magazine April/May Issue: Home Features Calendar Advertising Subscribe Contact Us • About Us • Communities • Directories • Fashion • Health & Fitness • Sports • Music • Politics • Real Estate • Photos • Business • Dining • Entertainment • Arts • Archives • Film • Literature • Travel • Feature • Arts Ohio Arts Council’s Riffe Gallery presents: Land of Latitudes: Contemporary Art from Chile May 12 - July 10, 2005 Curated by Sara Johnson, Southern Ohio Museum and Betty Talbott, Ohio Craft Museum Land of Latitudes: Contemporary Art from Chile will feature the work of nearly 60 artists living in the south American nation. This exhibition confirms Chile’s international reputation in printmaking and ceramic work and brings attention to major Chilean painters, sculptors and fiber artists as well. At 3,000 kilometers long, stretching nearly to Antartica and sandwiched tightly between the Pacific Ocean and the Andes Mountains, Chile enjoys a distinct and dramatic geography of contrasts. The power of Chile’s landscape is one of the threads uniting the exhibition’s diversity of work. Other influences include Chile’s literary figures, its indigenous Mapuche culture and its political history. The gallery is in the Vern Riffe Center for Government & the Arts, on the corner of State and High Streets in Columbus, OH. Gallery hours are Tuesday, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m., Wednesday, Thursday and Friday 10 a.m. - 8 p.m., Saturday 12-8 p.m. and Sunday 12-4 p.m. Closed Monday and state holidays. Admission is free. For information, call the Riffe Gallery at 614/644-9624 or visit us on the web at www.riffegallery.org. WEXNER CENTER Landscape Confection: Wexner Center Galleries at The Belmont Building, Through May 1st. Free. This whimsical, colorful exhibition brings together the work of 13 artists who expand the boundaries of traditional landscape painting. They embrace the decorative www.acmeartco.org and blur distinctions W WWW.WEXARTS.ORG W [email protected] between art and craft, using materials and FOR THE ARTS EVERY TUESDAY techniques that range far beyond paint on canvas. Secret Cinema. Film/Video Theater, Sat, Apr 30 Drawing / Modeling Circle / 9:30 pm. $3 all audiences from 7pm to 9pm, FREE to Phil Collins: They Acme Art members; $5 for non- Shoot Horses: Wexner What do we have in store for this month's Secret members. Bring your own Center Galleries at The drawing / painting supplies. Cinema screening? Will it be Lon Chaney in Belmont Building, London After Midnight? The full-length version Everyone who participates in the Through May 1st. circle takes a turn at modeling Free. of Von Stroheim's Greed? A long overdue tribute for fellow artists. to Chuck Norris? We're not telling, but trust us...it Watch an intriguing will be great! Acme Art Company is dedicated video installation by to all forms of expression and is British artist Phil The Wexner Center for the Arts is The Ohio State University's a place for all five senses to be Collins, and you'll come multidisciplinary, international laboratory for the exploration and entertained and explored. Acme face-to-face with Art Company fosters the careers inspiring youthful advancement of contemporary art. of all artists of all ages and exuberance in a most disciplines by creating unlikely place. Collins Through exhibitions, screenings, performances, artist residencies and opportunities within the Central traveled to Ramallah, educational programs, the Wexner Center acts as a forum where Ohio community. Founded in Palestine, and filmed established and emerging artists can test ideas and where diverse 1987, Acme Art Company two groups of young strives to present dynamic and people during day-long audiences can participate in cultural experiences that enhance cutting edge programming to dance marathons. understanding of the art of our time. share and create dialogue with the Central Ohio community. André Gingras/Korzo In its programs, the Wexner Center balances a commitment to Productions: CYP 17 . experimentation with a commitment to traditions of innovation and Black Box on Mershon affirms the university's mission of education, research and community Stage, Thu, May 5 - Fri, good it is. More Literature Discover what new books are out. More Travel Thinking about a WORLD PREMIERE! vacation? Find out where is popular and why. More New Era Begins With Verdi’s Aida September 30, October 1, 2, 2005 Opera Columbus’s first season in Mershon FIREBIRD Auditorium opens with Verdi’s magnificent Aida, not seen in Columbus in a generation. Set in May 12 - 15 ancient Egypt, Aida is one of the most popular Mershon Auditorium works in the operatic repertoire, featuring romance, Tickets: $15, $25, $37, $47 drama, and spectacular pageantry. Opera Columbus will present a note-complete production featuring a Kindness rules the day in this magical tale when a company of over 200, live animals from the prince frees the love of his life with the help of a Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, corps de ballet from mystical bird-like creature. BalletMet presents the the Silesian Dance Theatre of Bytom, Poland, and world premiere of BalletMet Artistic Associate choreography by the celebrated modern Stanton Welch's version of one of ballet's finest dancemaster Jacek Uminski. masterpieces, which is based on a Russian fairy tale. Inspired by previous classical interpretations of the work, Mr. Welch's production will feature newly designed costumes and sets, and, of course, the enchanting strains of Stravinsky's orchestral suite from the original full-length ballet score. BalletMet will also collaborate with the Ohio State University Department of Dance on two separate works to accompany Firebird. Choreography: Stanton Welch Music: Igor Fedorovich Stravinsky 322 Mount Vernon Avenue (614) 469-0939 Columbus, OH 43215 177 E. Naghten Street (614) 229-4860 Columbus, OH 43215 www.balletmet.org www.operacolumbus.org REVIEW REVIEW | RIFFE GALLERY REFINED RESULTS Creativity, diversity shine in South American works Published: Sunday, May 22, 2005 FEATURES - THE ARTS 06E By Jacqueline Hall FOR THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH For an intriguing glimpse of art found in a long strip of land squeezed between the Andes Mountains and the Pacific Ocean, visit ''Land of * ''Land of Latitudes: Contemporary Art From Chile'' continues through July 10 in Latitudes: Contemporary Art From Chile.'' the Riffe Gallery, 77 S. High St. Hours: The Riffe Gallery show spotlights both South American art and an noon to 4 p.m. Sundays, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. international program conducted by the Ohio Arts Council, which operates Tuesdays, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesdays through Fridays and noon to 8 p.m. the gallery. Saturdays. Admission: free. Call 614-644- 9624 or visit www.riffegallery.org. Curators Sara Johnson, director of visual arts at the Southern Ohio Museum and Cultural Center in Portsmouth, and Betty Talbott, director of the Ohio Craft Museum, selected the work of 51 artists, finding creative diversity and a sense of freedom in a land often assumed to produce only traditional weaving and pottery. Rather, contemporary, sophisticated paintings, sculptures, prints and fiber works reflect academic training, a familiarity with international mainstream art and geographic influences. Mountains and the ocean affect the artists' imagery, as in Santos Chavez's wood engraving Magic Wind and Patricio de la O's painting Juan Fernandez Island . Surrealism marks the works of several painters who translate the movement of the 1920s and '30s in contemporary, personal ways. Mario Gomez's Afternoon Dream is one example. Sculptures retain a tenuous connection to traditional pottery in the predilection for clay. Hugo Marin even appears to have looked back at pre-Columbian art in his disturbing ceramic work Child With Diapers . Isabel Izquierdo Walker bases her compositional clay arrangement, Intertwined , on an interpretation of prehistoric tools. The huge, untitled basket form by Cristian Salineros Fillat might have roots in indigenous basketry. Poala Vezzani, a resident artist in 2003 at Kenyon College, is represented by constructions and photographs of installations (too monumental to be transported from Chile), abstract projects created with environmental products. Diversity in work is remarkable, from Benjamin Lira's massive Bronze Head II to Nevenka Pavic's three-dimensional pieces. Even more remarkable are the number of prints. Chile has a worldwide reputation as a printmaking center, and, as shown in this exhibit, the degree of technology and style seems limitless. Children's Games , a set of 36 prints by a variety of artists from a Chilean printmaking studio, illustrates a wide variety of techniques and shows how the printmakers -- many of whom also function as painters and sculptors -- move easily among disciplines and master them all.