🔜 🔜 🔜 LAST CHANCE:
6/22, 2-5pm (this Saturday).
CLOSING BRUNCH with...
🍏 home made apple strudel 🍏
on Sunday from 11am -1pm, 6/23.
This is the closing weekend of "Transcriptions, After F. Kolar"
@artintheparkla
5568 Via Marisol, LA, CA, 90042
in Hermon Park (past the tennis courts and just past playground)
** FYI parents, there is a play ground next to the building **
𝗥𝗲𝗱 𝗣𝗲𝗻𝘀 🖊️🎈 Writing Center @ LACA:
Join a tri-weekly in-person writing group at LACA to write in community and find peer-to-peer support. Drop in to work on your essays, artist statements, stories, poems, drafts for fellowship/grant/residency applications, project proposals and more. The writing center program is open Wednesdays 6-9PM. We meet this week on 𝗪𝗲𝗱𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝟱/𝟭𝟯.
𝗥𝗲𝗱 𝗣𝗲𝗻𝘀 offers 3 hours of quiet cowriting space. The last hour will provide an optional time for participants to meet in pairs or small groups to share work and talk through projects.
Coffee, tea, pens, pencils, highlighters, post-it notes, and scrap paper will be provided.
🫂 Thank you @lacarchive and my co-organizer @ccczzznnn 📝
I have this work, from a (kinda) new series up at The Armory Center for the Arts. It is part of the exhibition "Sanctuaries" and will be up 'till January 18th.
The series, MUZEUM, consists of paintings based on my photographs of museum exhibitions in Eastern Europe that replicate common daily environments (kitchens, groceries, school etc.) as they were during the Communist era. All of the museums are citizen run and have some pretty amazing strategies for staging the past reality in, and from, memory.
"Living Room View (Museum of Life Under Communism, Warsaw)," 2024, oil panel, 11x14 inches
I can't believe its been a year since I spent an amazing month @monson_arts where I took icy dips in the lake, had the nicest studio of my life, met wonderful artists and writers, made headway on new projects and... UFORGETTABLE was a neighbors self-built Finnish sauna in the woods with cold river plunges. Magic. Ever thankful! and I MISS IT GODDAMNIT!
@severass@misslorettaaaa@amber.zora@megan.deguzman@sjacksonopoku@lauracreste
Czech Movie Night @ Leroy’s
"Prefab Story" by Vera Chytilová
August 21st, 2024
Doors at 7pm.
Film starts promptly at 7:30 pm.
Come have a Slivovitz and some Becherovka with us (@groggy_carbon ) as we watch this overlooked gem of a film by Vera Chytilová, one of the masters of the Czech New Wave. 💎 🎥 💎 🎥 💎
"Prefab Story" (1979) is set against the backdrop of a very real housing shortage in 1970’s Czechoslovakia during the Normalization period of Communist rule. Chytilová offers a satirical omniscient narrative of ensemble characters that leads you through the everyday lives of panelák inhabitants.
Nevertheless, comedy abounds!
At the time, people were moving in as construction continued around them. Amenities were dragged over mud and garbage as the state built Brutal/Modernist towers with uniform units to quickly fulfill its utopian promises of a better quality of life. Chytilová used documentary footage of the construction periods and amplified its digenic noise as part of the soundtrack.
Much of this social commentary is communicated via an unusual combination of visual slapstick and verité style. Characters constantly get lost searching for their actual apartments which leads to surprise trysts and unnoticed children casually joining into a mistaken family activities. Chytilová vivid interwoven storylines reveal the desires, deceptions, pleasures, frustrations, hopes and foibles of everyday life.
"Prefab Story", with its focus on the domestic sphere also critiques the intrinsic Patriarchy of the Communist utopia. Socialist ideals may have equalized men and women in terms of a labor force, but this did not translate into the division of labor at home. There are several scenes of woman cooking, thwarted from any ease in the process by badly designed kitchens. The absurdism in these scenes is presented with an affection for the characters and foils the state-imposed plans for ideological and architectural uniformity.
Vera Chytilová (most known for her film "Daisies") first made "Prefab Story" in 1979 though it was not released in Czechoslovakia until December 1981 and first shown outside of Czechoslovakia in the 1990’s.
@leroys_happy_place
🔻(LISTEN to yer local DCA)🔻
Art in the Park, located in beautiful Hermon Park in the Arroyo Seco, will be buzzing with activity this Saturday, as it does most weekends. It’s the last day to see their current exhibition ‘Transcriptions, After F. Kolar,’ an exhibition by Simone Montemurno based on the artist’s discovery of nearly 200 watercolor landscapes by an unrecognized artist, F. Kolar at a flea-market in Prague, Czechia. The landscapes were painted between 1923 and 1959, a period defined by Hitler’s occupation of the Sudetenland and the show trials of the Communist Putsch. The Manila, Philippines-born artist makes “cover” paintings of Kolar’s works, pairing the original with her version and adding historical ephemera to create collage-like configurations.
And happening outside in the park, Art in the Park hosts Community Band, produced in partnership with Neighborhood Music School, where Musicians of all skill levels, ages, and backgrounds are invited to join the band in learning and perform an eclectic mix of music; and Community Arts, a free, all ages workshop series exploring the arts, from puppets to painting. Art workshop and music activities take place 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Gallery hours are 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. All programs are free.
artintheparkla.org
@nmsmusicla
Visiting Hours for
Saturday June 8th:
2-5 pm
& by appointment on Sundays ➕
@artintheparkla
5568 Via Marisol, LA, CA, 90042
"Transcriptions, After F. Kolar"
May 18th - June 15th➕
▶ Audio (as playlist) link in bio and show details 🔻
◼ 🤸♂️ Second Image, detail of:
"After Kolar (The Sokol and The Spartakiadians, 1932 & 1955) 🤸♂️
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"Transcriptions, After F. Kolar" presents a body of work by Simone Montemurno based on her discovery of nearly 200 watercolor landscapes by an unrecognized artist, F.Kolar at a flea-market in Prague, Czechia. The landscapes were painted between 1923 and 1959, a period defined by Hitler’s occupation of the Sudetenland and the show trials of the Communist Putsch. Montemurno makes “cover” paintings of Kolar’s works, pairing the original with her version and adding historical ephemera to create collage-like configurations. "Transcriptions, After F. Kolar "considers individual lived experience in the landscape of history, and weaves together ideas about time, memory, socio-political events, the artist’s personal family history, and the value of material culture. Each work is accompanied by an audio track—a combination of narrative and description—enacting an oral history of the time and place conjured.
Always happy to have viewers/listeners!🖤
Gallery hours: Saturdays 2-5 and by appointment on Sundays ➕
▶ Audio (as playlist) link in bio and show details 🔻
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"Transcriptions, After F. Kolar" presents a body of work by Simone Montemurno based on her discovery of nearly 200 watercolor landscapes by an unrecognized artist, F.Kolar at a flea-market in Prague, Czechia. The landscapes were painted between 1923 and 1959, a period defined by Hitler’s occupation of the Sudetenland and the show trials of the Communist Putsch. Montemurno makes “cover” paintings of Kolar’s works, pairing the original with her version and adding historical ephemera to create collage-like configurations. "Transcriptions, After F. Kolar "considers individual lived experience in the landscape of history, and weaves together ideas about time, memory, socio-political events, the artist’s personal family history, and the value of material culture. Each work is accompanied by an audio track—a combination of narrative and description—enacting an oral history of the time and place conjured.
"Transcriptions, After F. Kolar"
May 18th - June 15th➕
@artinthepark
5568 Via Marisol, LA, CA, 90042
"...According to the caption, one woman is named Capitalism and the other Communism. Capitalism is the woman in white. Capitalism is also a young painter; she’s visiting from New York. She tells Communism about the scene in New York and how everyone is working abstractly. She says it’s not easy for her, but she wants to push herself in that direction."
⬆ ... part of audio narrative for "After Kolar (Two Women Artists, 1947/51)"
COME SEE MY EXHIBITION
2-5 PM (Gallery hours 6/1/24)
@artintheparkla
"Transcriptions, After F. Kolar"
*full audio link in bio
ON VIEW: May 18 - June 15, 2024
Art in the Park
5568 Via Marisol, LA, CA, 90042
in Hermon Park in the Arroyo Seco
artintheparkla.org, (323) 379 - 5718
Thanks to all ye attendee's on Saturday at my opening! Look how happy ya made me!
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FYI: I'm really pushing the audio factor of the show! You can listen to it like a podcast/playlist, actually! Link in bio.
(Each flatwork has a companion audio track, a short narrative/ descriptive/ oral history. Some are quite dramatic, I'm told ...oooh lala).
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"Transcriptions, After F. Kolar"
May 18th - June 15th
@artinthepark
5568 Via Marisol, LA, CA, 90042
Gallery Hours" Saturdays, 2pm - 5pm or by appointment.
"Transcriptions, After F. Kolar" presents a body of work by Simone Montemurno based on her discovery of nearly 200 watercolor landscapes by an unrecognized artist, F.Kolar at a flea-market in Prague, Czechia. The landscapes were painted between 1923 and 1959, a period defined by Hitler’s occupation of the Sudetenland and the show trials of the Communist Putsch. Montemurno makes “cover” paintings of Kolar’s works, pairing the original with her version and adding historical ephemera to create collage-like configurations. "Transcriptions, After F. Kolar "considers individual lived experience in the landscape of history, and weaves together ideas about time, memory, socio-political events, the artist’s personal family history, and the value of material culture. Each work is accompanied by an audio track—a combination of narrative and description—enacting an oral history of the time and place conjured.
