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ART: ‘Aura’ challenges the possibilities of creative innovation
AURA
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Current exhibition at Union Hall 1750 Wewatta St, Ste 144, Denver May 13 — July 9, 2022 A partnership between Denver Film x Union Hall x Eriko Tsogo/Hilitehead LLC
AURA explores the interdisciplinary territory of art and technology – presenting a mix of traditional and experimental art forms that challenge the possibilities of creative innovation to enlist technology as new modes of valuation and expression in cultural production and critique. AURA seeks to challenge the preconceptions about art on the forefront of innovation, in what is next and to inspire new ways of creative thinking. The artists in this exhibition explore the ways that we live in digital worlds and physical ones, challenging the idea that only “real” objects possess an aura.
A collaboration between Denver Film and Union Hall, AURA is a prescient to our current moment, as the pandemic is changing how art is being created, seen, and sold. With the oversaturation of digital communication platforms and the increasing dissonance of the impersonal, these artists are questioning and bridging these gaps in their practice.
As we observe the art industry embracing a massive shift towards technological space, artists are coping and pivoting with technology shift in their individual practices, and reevaluating what it means to possess an aura.
Learn more at: unionhalldenver.org/aura
Christine Nguyen, Dark Matter and Algae
Alex Branch, Fallen Tree
Visions of Rural China opens at the Global Village Museum of Arts and Cultures in Fort Collins
Photo of Stubborn Ox
Learn more at: globalvillagemuseum.org
Visions of Rural China
Current exhibit at Global Village Museum of Arts and Cultures 200 W. Mountain Ave, Fort Collins June 3 — September 24, 2022
Visions of Rural China opens Friday, June 3, at the Global Village Museum of Arts and Cultures. Admission to the Museum is free from 5-8 p.m. as part of Fort Collins Art Walk.
The Main Gallery exhibit features paintings from Huxian County in central China. The folk art, created by villagers and farmers, portrays the life, culture, and society in China from 1973 to 2000.
“During this time period, the Chinese Communist Party secretly sent professional artists to train peasants to paint idyllic images of rural life,” said Sophi Wulff, the Museum’s Administrative Assistant. “The CCP showcased the peasant art and then reproduced the paintings as posters for mass distribution. The goal of the propaganda was to educate, influence, and unite the masses to believe that communism equated with a good and beneficial life. Wulff and Ollie Bode, the Museum’s Collections Manager, are co-curating the exhibit.
The exhibit represents a donation to the Museum of paintings collected by Irv Green and Andrea Gross. The two spent years crisscrossing Huxian County, talking with villagers, photographing the artists, and recording their stories in their own words.
The exhibition runs through Sept. 24, 2022. The Global Village Museum is located at 200 W. Mountain Avenue, and Museum hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. For more information, visit globalvillagemuseum.org or call 970-221-4600.
The Global Village Museum of Arts and Cultures is a 501(c)(3) organization with a mission to foster and celebrate international connections between Northern Colorado and the world through exhibits of folk art, fine arts, and artifacts from around the globe.
