Exhibition Archives Summer 1999

Soul of Africa: African Art from the Han Coray Collection
May 8–July 18, 1999
Heinz Galleries

A visual record of the diversity and complexity of West and Central West African art and cultures, this exhibition showcases over 200 objects representing a variety of peoples, focusing on such major aspects of African life as royal culture, figures, masks, household effects, and music.

The exhibition is from the Völkerkundemuseum of the University of Zurich, Switzerland, and is circulated under the aegis of the Tribal Art Centre in Basel, Switzerland. A fully illustrated catalogue accompanies the exhibition.

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Forum: Diana Thater
May 15–July 11, 1999
Forum Gallery

The imprint of technology and culture in the way we now experience nature is Diana Thater's vision in this video installation, The best space is a deep space. Four video images of a trained horse performing tricks at the behest of its trainer in a color-washed, mist-filled arena are cast on the gallery walls and shown on monitors in 35mm film and video format. Visitors are encouraged to walk around the gallery and, through their "interference" with the projections, become part of the artwork.

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Forum: Félix de la Concha
July 17–September 19, 1999

Over the course of the last two years, Félix de la Concha, a Spanish artist residing in Pittsburgh, has undertaken the most ambitious cycle of paintings made in the region for many years: a suite of 365 paintings, each corresponding to one calendar day. His constant point of orientation has been the Cathedral of Learning, the building that appears in every one of the 365 canvases that will be completed by the end of this exhibition. Each day he makes one painting from a different vantage point of the city, building up, over time, an epic portrait of the city of Pittsburgh.

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89th Annual Associated Artists of Pittsburgh
August 6–28, 1999
Heinz Exhibition Galleries

Each year the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh invites artists living within 150 miles of the city to submit work for this survey exhibition. This juried exhibition presents a fascinating look at the work of contemporary artists in the region.

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Whistler: Impressions of an American Abroad
August 21, 1999–January 23, 2000

James McNeill Whistler was one of the most innovative artists of the nineteenth century and, like many great painters of his generation, a dedicated printmaker. This exhibition, consisting of fifty etchings and thirty lithographs from the Carnegie Museum of Art, is organized chronologically, beginning with his early etchings, the French Set and the Thames Set, and continuing with several of his drypoint portraits of the 1870s; the lithographs from the end of that decade, which were printed in small editions and are therefore quite rare; and the Venice and Amsterdam etchings, the prints for which Whistler is perhaps best known. The exhibition concludes with the lithographs of the early 1890s.

Whistler: Impressions of An American Abroad is made possible in part by The Gailliot Family Foundation and The Fellows Fund. Additional support for the museum's exhibition program is provided by The Heinz Endowments and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.

The exhibition was organized by The American Federation of Arts and the Carnegie Museum of Art.

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