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Mark Booth: “Spanish Still Life” at the Hyde Park Art Center

Published on October 22, 2008 in Outer Ear Festival of Sound. 0 Comments

Sunday, October 26 - January 2009

Spanish Still Life is a multi-channel sound art installation with accompanying visual images based on a text of possible and impossible objects and situations comprising an imagined space between two nearly identical seventeenth century still life paintings by the Spanish artist Juan Sánchez Cotán. The images are Cotán’s austere, beautiful, and precise “Still Life with Quince, Cabbage, Melon, Cucumber” and “Still Life with Wildfowl”.The installation is composed of a poly-vocal eight-channel audio art composition, inkjet prints from a re-written calendar renaming all the days of the year titled “365 Days Renamed” that appears in the still life text, two opposing chromed steel mirrors cut to the exact measurements of the two original Cotán still life paintings, and two imperfectly mirrored video projections of Juan Sánchez Cotán’s “Still Life with Quince, Cabbage, Melon, Cucumber” and “Still Life with Wildfowl”.

Hyde Park Art Center, 5020 S. Cornell
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Performances in the installation by Mark Booth and invited artists:
Saturday, November 15 at 2pm
Saturday, December 6 at 2pm.
Free

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