/ FILM SCREENING EVENT /
/ ABOUT THE EVENT /
Sunday, March 28 @ 12:00 PM
“An Afternoon About CHRISTO” @ Redux Contemporary Art Center
Featuring
Two Maysles Brothers Documentary Films:
12:00 PM: Islands (57 min.)
02:00 PM: Umbrellas (81 min.)
* Following each film, a discussion will be led by Marian Mazzone & Jarod Charzewski.
An Afternoon About CHRISTO is a collaboration between the Gibbes Museum of Art, Redux Contemporary Art Center, and the Halsey Institute at the College of Charleston School of the Arts.
This event is free and open to the first 40 guests who RSVP to info@reduxstudios.org for one or both films. The world famous artist will be in Charleston on April 13 for a lecture presented by the Gibbes. These events are dedicated to the memory of Jeanne-Claude, Christo’s wife and partner.
BIOS:
[ Marian Mazzone ] serves as Chair of the Department of Art History at the College of Charleston while teaching courses on modern and contemporary art, and art theory/historiography. Prior to coming to Charleston, she worked in the curatorial department at the Columbus Museum of Art while completing her Ph.D. in art history at The Ohio State University.
[ Jarod Charzewski ], a contemporary sculptor and experimental filmmaker, was born in Winnipeg, Canada and received his Bachelors of Fine Art from the University of Manitoba (1996) and a Masters of Fine Arts in Sculpture from the University of Minnesota (2005). Charzewski has been a Visiting Assistant Professor of Sculpture at the College of Charleston since 2006.
