Mario García Torres
Mario García Torres is a Mexico City–based conceptual artist who addresses the ways in which art and information are constructed over time.
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Mario García Torres is a Mexico City–based conceptual artist who addresses the ways in which art and information are constructed over time.
Laurie Simmons is a New York–based artist and filmmaker renowned since the mid-1970s for her psychologically and formally profound work.
Sina Najafi is editor-in-chief of Cabinet magazine, editorial director of Cabinet Books, and, together with Jeffrey Kastner, commissioning editor of the essays for the 2013 Venice Biennale catalogue. Najafi has curated or co-curated a number of exhibitions and projects, including “Odd Lots: Revisiting Gordon Matta-Clark’s Fake Estates” at White Columns and the Queens Museum of Art in New York in 2005, which is the subject of this Tuesday Evenings presentation.
Sounds Modern presents Framing Desire in Music, a concert of recent works in which composers express their longing, sentimental and magical, for an unattainable and distant reality. The program includes works that celebrate particular people and places – and especially beloved pieces of music that composers refer to (even incorporate), reframing them much as photographs and video reframe and reinforce elements of the visual world.
TEACHERS & AMATEURS RECITAL
Joel Goodman – USA, Cell Biologist (Texas)
----- Chopin: Ballade No. 3 in A-flat major, Op. 47
Hyekyung Lee – Korea, Private Piano Teacher (Michigan)
----- Chopin: Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58, 1st Movement
Gerrit Pronske – USA, Attorney (Texas)
----- Chopin: Nocturne in D-flat major, Op. 27 No. 2
YOUNG ARTISTS RECITAL
Ádám Balogh – Hungary, 17
(2013 Grand Winner, Piano Talents International Piano Competition, Italy)
-----Chopin: Etude in C major, Op. 10 No. 1
-----Scriabin: Etude in D-flat major, Op. 8 No. 10
-----Liszt: Tarentalla
Ruixue Zhang – China, 21
(2015 National Winner, Music Teachers National Association Young Artist Piano Competition, USA)
----- Schubert: Klavierstücke No. 2 in E-flat major, D 946
Guest choreographers and dancers are featured in excited performances in the Modern Grand Lobby. Admission free.
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