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Surrealist Art Explored Through Shadow Imagery Performance at NSU’s Library

Surrealist Art Explored Through Shadow Imagery Performance at NSU’s

NSU’s Alvin Sherman Library will continue its Ferro Fine Arts Series in 2010 with an exciting new production: Pablo Cano and Jim Hammond’s DOG – a Deceptively Simple, Surreal Shadow Puppet Show on Mar. 13 at 2 p.m. in the Second Floor Gallery.

Pablo Cano, renowned South Florida found-object artist and creator of whimsical sculptures and marionettes and Jim Hammond, puppet designer, producer, artistic director (credits include The Lion King, and Snow White) expand your imagination with their presentation of DOG.

DOG asserts that everyone has a beautiful idea they chase, perhaps a simple thing that makes them happy. When this pursuit is just out of reach, havoc is inevitable. When the object is finally caught, what will be our response? The heroine of DOG pursues a "Red Squeaky Ball" as a simple metaphor for each of our simplest pursuits of happiness.

The images in DOG range from playful to emotionally powerful. This deceptively simple shadow puppet play leads us through reinterpretations of 10 great works of art, in a surreal, non-linear world. Artwork explored includes:

  • Sunday Afternoon at La Grand Jatte, by Georges Seurat
  • The Last Judgment, by an unknown Spanish Romanesque artist
  • Golden Fish, by Paul Klee
  • Scream, by Edvard Munch
  • Composition in Red, Yellow and Blue, by Piet Mondrian
  • Wheel, by Marcel Duchamp
  • Person Throwing a Stone, by Joan Miro
  • Guernica, by Pablo Picasso
  • Untitled 1968, by Mark Rothko
  • Dog, by Alberto Giacometti

Join us after the performance for Q&A with the artists. (Please Note: Age recommendation for the show is 10 and older as some images may be too intense for younger viewers.)

Presented by the Charles P. Ferro Foundation, this Ferro Series event is FREE and open to the public. More events in the series are being added throughout the year, so stay tuned! For more information, please visit www.nova.edu/library/ferro or call 954-262-5477.

 



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