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Parastou Forouhar - Documentation

“On November 21, 1998 Parastou’s parents, Dariush and Parvaneh Forouhar, both well known political dissidents, were assassinated in their home in Teheran on the orders of the secret service of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Soon after her parents’ death, she began preparing for an exhibition at the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt.  The installation Documentation is a roomful of documents relating to the murders of her parents and other Iranian dissidents. Letters, newspaper clippings, transcripts, translations, press releases, and photographs are pinned to the walls and stacked in boxes; there is also a photocopier for viewers to take any of the material with them.

Forouhar’s gesture of institutional critique translates a very personal grievance into a public demand for retribution and a collective document of resistance.  While her subsequent projects would never be quite as information-heavy, Documentation is typical of Forouhar’s preference for persuasive evidence over emotional entreaty.” - Media Farzin

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Sketches By Ray and Charles Eames

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Ray and Charles Eames

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Maurizio Anzeri - I Will Be with You the Night of Your Wedding (2013)

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Maurizio Anzeri - Pink (2012)

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Maurizio Anzeri - Rebecca (2009)

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Maurizio Anzeri - Round Midnight (2009)

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Diann Bauer - Apollo meet Icarus (2013)

“This is a large public sculpture for the Socrates Sculpture Park (Opened September 8, 2013) loosely based on a 1955 architectural folly built by Victor Pasmore called the Apollo Pavilion.  It is a reworking of the forms of the Apollo Pavilion but made of painted and varnished plywood on a timber structure. The Apollo Pavilion was designed by Victor Pasmore for Peterlee New Town in the north of England. It was designed as “architecture and sculpture of purely abstract form through which to walk, in which to linger and on which to play, a free anonymous monument which, because of its independence, can lift the activity and psychology of an urban housing community on to a universal plane.” The reality of the early life of the pavilion, through the last three decades of the 20th century was that it became a “popular hangout for local youths” and a site for graffiti and vagrancy—obviously all bad news for the ideals and purity of such a modernist vision of unity and elevation. In contrast to this apparently inevitable trajectory of demise and failed utopianism, Icarus, Meet Apollo references a common sense of optimism but one that acknowledges the reality of contemporary urban life aligning the inevitable messiness and fallibility that people are with the ideals we set for ourselves. It is a celebration of aspirations for a better way of being that embraces our messiness and fallibility.”

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Diann Bauer - Apollo meet Icarus (2013)

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Aleksandra Ekster - Guardian of Energy (1924) - costume design for the film Aelita by Yakov Protozanov

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Aleksandra Ekster - Cirque (1927-28)

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Aleksandra Ekster - Sketch

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Dallin Maybee

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Dallin Maybee - Conductors of Our Own Destiny (2013) 

Commercial tanned bison hide, cut-glass beads, glass seed beads, gold beads, steel beads, copper beads, ermines, satin ribbon, Swarovski crystals, acrylic paint, ink, brass bells

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Jae Jarrell - Ebony Family (1968)

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Jae Jarrell - Urban Wall Suit (1969)

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Jae Jarrell - Brothers Surrounding Sis (1970)