Anchorage conceptual artist, Mariano Gonzales will open a stark, straightforward exhibit at Alaska Pacific University's Grant Hall Art Gallery Friday. Here's how Mariano explained it to me Wednesday:
this show is about getting feedback from regular folks about our involvement in the Middle East. What do normal people feel about this?
There will be several pages of very large, lined, yellowish blank pages, on the wall. Writing instruments will be there for people to express their views.
There will be several American flags. Some will be displayed provocatively.
All will be displayed with respect.
I'll be performing the premiere of Shards IV, for bugle and electronics, at around 6:15 p.m. It will be the first performance of Shards dedicated to our most recent dead in Afghanistan. All previous performances have honored our most recent Iraq War fallen. The Shards series was begun to both honor our fatal war casualties, and protest the growing mechanization and dehumanization of our expanding policy of total war all the time.
It is especially sad to have to continue the series under the administration of a president for whom I voted and donated.
Mariano Gonzales
October 2 -25, 2009 Art Gallery
Grant Hall - APU Campus
1st Friday opening reception:
October 2, 2009 5:30 - 7:00 p.m.
October 2 -25, 2009 Art Gallery
Grant Hall - APU Campus
1st Friday opening reception:
October 2, 2009 5:30 - 7:00 p.m.
