{"id":2957,"date":"2011-07-22T00:47:10","date_gmt":"2011-07-22T05:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/?p=2957"},"modified":"2011-07-24T03:12:15","modified_gmt":"2011-07-24T08:12:15","slug":"giverny-of-the-midwest-nathaniel-stern-gallery-aop-in-johannesburg-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/22\/giverny-of-the-midwest-nathaniel-stern-gallery-aop-in-johannesburg-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Giverny of the Midwest: Nathaniel Stern @ GALLERY AOP in Johannesburg, South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"Nathaniel<\/a><\/span>Giverny of the Midwest<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Johannesburg, South Africa<\/strong>
\nNathaniel Stern<\/span><\/a> at GALLERY AOP<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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44 Stanley Avenue<\/div>\n
Braamfontein Werf (Milpark), Johannesburg<\/div>\n
Saturday 30 July – Saturday 13 August 2011<\/div>\n
Opening talk by Jeremy Wafer, 30 July 14h00<\/div>\n
Artist talks, 4 – 5 August, Joburg and Pretoria<\/div>\n
Artist walkabout at AOP, 4 August 18h00<\/div>\n

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For Nathaniel Stern’s ongoing series of performative prints, he straps a desktop scanner, laptop and custom-made battery pack to his body, and performs images into existence. He might scan in straight, long lines across tables, tie the scanner around his neck and swing over flowers, do pogo-like gestures over bricks, or just follow the wind over water lilies in a pond.\u00c2\u00a0The dynamism between his body, technology and the landscape is transformed into beautiful and quirky renderings, which are then produced as archival art objects.<\/p>\n

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Giverny of the Midwest<\/em><\/a> is a panoramic installation of nearly 100 such prints, rendering water, lilies, leaves and other organic forms into lush and rippling images. The source materials were scanned during a week-long camping trip next to a lily pond in South Bend, Indiana, and edited together over the course of nearly 2 years. The piece explicitly cites Monet\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s large-scale painting and installation, Water Lilies<\/em><\/a> (1914-1926), at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. It is similarly an immersive triptych of over 250 square feet (totaling 2 x 12 meters), and follows the patterns of light and color in Monet\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s panorama. But\u00c2\u00a0Giverny of the Midwest’s<\/a><\/em> three large panels move between proximity and distance, and are broken down into differently-sized and -shaped prints on watercolor paper, each evenly spaced apart. The tensions between flow and geometry, life and modularity, place it in further dialogue with other trajectories of modern and contemporary art, and simultaneously activate the possibilities of working across digital and traditional forms.<\/p>\n

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Giverny of the Midwest<\/em> (detail, 2 x 4 meters; total size 2 x 12 meters)<\/span><\/p>\n

Also part of the exhibition: The Giverny Series<\/em><\/a>, 8 individual prints (edition 10, 2011) and\u00c2\u00a0In the fold<\/em><\/a>, an artist book (forthcoming)\u00c2\u00a0– both produced using imagery\u00c2\u00a0from the aforementioned “art camping trip” in South Bend, Indiana.<\/p>\n

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<\/span>Artist presentations<\/strong><\/p>\n

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At both artist talks, Nathaniel will talk about his trajectory of thinking and making, which centers around curiosity, generosity and dialogue. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll present his work as a series of questions that often lead to interdisciplinarity and collaboration, and the combination of new and traditional media. The walkabout will see an open discussion about\u00c2\u00a0Giverny of the Midwest<\/em> more specifically – the prints, the process, and the in-betweens.<\/p>\n

Artist talk: Thursday 4 August, 12h30
\n<\/span><\/span>Digital Convent, University of the Witwatersrand, Braamfontein, Johannesburg
\n<\/span>Co-hosted by Wits Digital Arts and the Division of Visual Arts
\n<\/span>details: tegan.bristow@wits.ac.za<\/span><\/p>\n

Artist walkabout: Thursday 4 August, 18h00
\n<\/span><\/span>GALLERY AOP
\n<\/span>44 Stanley Avenue, Braamfontein Werf (Milpark), Johannesburg
\n<\/span>details: info@artonpaper.co.za<\/span><\/p>\n

Artist talk: Friday 5 August, 9h00
\n<\/span><\/span>Sunnyside Campus, University of South Africa (UNISA), Pretoria
\n<\/span>Hosted by the Department of Art History, Visual Arts and Musicology
\n<\/span>details: colleen.alborough@gmail.com<\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Giverny of the Midwest Johannesburg, South Africa Nathaniel Stern at GALLERY AOP 44 Stanley Avenue Braamfontein Werf (Milpark), Johannesburg Saturday 30 July – Saturday 13 August 2011 Opening talk by Jeremy Wafer, 30 July 14h00 Artist talks, 4 – 5 August, Joburg and Pretoria Artist walkabout at AOP, 4 August 18h00 For Nathaniel Stern’s ongoing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,3,26,40,7,38,9,39,29,2,19,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-art-and-tech","category-compressionism","category-exhibition","category-me","category-milwaukee-art","category-pop-culture","category-printmaking","category-research","category-south-african-art","category-stimulus","category-technology","category-uncategorical"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9blZT-LH","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":763,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/11\/art-south-africa-is-powerless\/","url_meta":{"origin":2957,"position":0},"title":"art | south africa is powerless","author":"nathaniel","date":"11 September 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"This post is probably related to this other post about the lack of reviews of emerging artists in joburg... 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