(thru Eric Theise)
There are a pair of shows now on in San Francisco that
have to do with John Cage's printmaking activities at
Crown Point Press during the years 1977 - 1992.
Here are some websites (better than I did with the
Schneemann):
* exhibit at the Palace of the Legion of Honor until
Apr 15, 2001
http://www.thinker.org/legion/exhibitions/116/
* exhibit at Crown Point Press until March 3, 2001
http://crownpoint.com/
* new book by Kathan Brown, JOHN CAGE Visual Art: To
Sober and Quiet the Mind, available 1 March 2001 (42$US)
http://crownpoint.com/bookstore/artists/cage_visual_art.html
The exhibit at the Palace of the Legion of Honor (the only
currently open museum of the Fine Arts Museums of San
Francisco since I am currently deconstructing the de
Young) is called "The Visual Art of John Cage: To Sober
and Quiet the Mind." This show is open from December 20 -
April 15, 2001 C.E.
The show is all in one good sized room, and features about
50 of Cage's etchings and monotypes, ranging from the
earliest work, Seven Day Diary(1978) - in which Cage
experimented with a new technique each of the seven days
he was in residence at the Press - to the quite-beautiful
and less formally-structured Without Horizon pieces done
in the last year of his life (1992). The room is dominated
by the back wall, which is entirely devoted to
Dereau(1982), a 38-print series inspired by drawings in
Thoreau's diary, whose title comes from decor + Thoreau,
and which makes extensive use of chance operations.
If you go to:
http://www.famsf.org
and scroll down to the bottom and place Cage's name in the
search engine, you'll come up with lots of thumbnail
visuals of his work.
R0d
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