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Opening Reception February 9, 2018 from 6:00-8:00PM. A powerful and provocative installation by Malcolm Cochran (Columbus, OH), Requiem is a memorial to deaths from genocide, massacres, warfare, and human suffering from social and economic injustice.
A powerful and provocative installation by Malcolm Cochran (Columbus, OH), Requiem is a memorial to deaths from genocide, massacres, warfare, and human suffering from social and economic injustices and exploitation. It merges mundane and discarded refrigerators repurposed as coffin-like sculptures with live and recorded performance of ancient, classical, and contemporary vocalese. The installation dovetails visual and aural elements at once startling, destabilizing, and moving. A new work situated in the West Gallery is complemented by two earlier sculptures by Cochran that serve as conceptual bookends: History Lesson (2011), a monumental sculpture that replicates an automobile rearview mirror featured in the Weston’s street-level space; and Washing Feet (1996-97), a split-video projection in the East Gallery depicting the age-old tradition of cleansing feet, which the artist observed while travelling through Heathrow Airport in London. Cochran is professor emeritus at Ohio State University and recipient of the 2017 International Sculpture Center’s Outstanding Educator Award.
A gallery talk and performance with the artist and eight vocal performers will be presented in the gallery on March 18 at 2:00 pm. Admission is free and open to the public. Light refreshments provided.
ADMISSION INFO
Free Admission!
Phone: 5139774170
Email: kodonnell@cincinnatiarts.org
Website: https://www.cincinnatiarts.org/weston-art-gallery/exhibitions/detail/mal...
INDIVIDUAL DATES & TIMES*
Additional time info:
Open late on Procter & Gamble Hall performance evenings. Please call ahead for times.
Admission is free. Donations are welcome!
LOCATION
650 Walnut Street (corner of Seventh and Walnut streets), Cincinnati, OH 45202
PARKING INFO
The Weston Art Gallery is situated in the urban core of downtown Cincinnati. With more than 6,000 parking spaces within a two-block radius, there are a variety of parking options for patrons. On the street blocks of Sixth St., Walnut St., and Seventh St. there are several independent valet operators just footsteps from the Weston Art Gallery entrance. Valet stations are located adjacent to Nada Restaurant, Nicholson’s Gastropub, and Jeff Ruby’s Steakhouse.