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DESCRIPTION:SARKIS: ALIVE AND AFTER\nSeptember 22 – December 9, 2006\n\nOpening and 
 Reception for the Artist: September 21, 5:30–7:30pm\nPublic Lecture: 
 Tuesday, September 26, 7:30pm\n\nSan Francisco Art Institute\nWalter and 
 McBean Galleries\n800 Chestnut Street\nSan Francisco, CA 
 94133\n415.771.7020 / www.sfai.edu\n\nGallery Hours: Tuesday through 
 Saturday, 11:00am – 6:00pm\n\n\nSan Francisco Art Institute is pleased to 
 present Sarkis: Alive and After, the first major US exhibition to examine 
 the work of Paris-based artist Sarkis, bringing long overdue attention to 
 this prominent figure of the global art scene whose career spans more than 
 40 years. Curated by Hou Hanru, SFAI’s new Director of Exhibitions and 
 Public Programs, this exhibition presents an installation of 39 films, a 
 suite of watercolor drawings, texts, photographs, and site-specific neon 
 works. \n\n“This complex and enduring project opens up a space in which 
 the audience can enter into a continuous dialogue with the artist, and with 
 the fantastic world that the artist has created through his infinite 
 dialogue with other creators,” explains Hou Hanru. “With Alive and 
 After, SFAI’s galleries become a site of production, a laboratory, a 
 workshop . . . Sarkis’ practice not only includes his own productions, 
 but also the exchanges between himself, his works, and the audience. His 
 work represents the oscillation between exile and freedom, cultural 
 difference and social restructuring, which are highly significant and 
 influential ideas in our age of globalization.”\n\nBorn in Istanbul to an 
 Armenian family, Sarkis currently lives and works in Paris. Evolving out of 
 his experience as an “exile,” Sarkis’ work can be seen as a 
 meditation on the tensions between memory and space. His works are 
 profoundly concerned with humanity, and “unfold a personal universe from 
 the contrasts between light and darkness, green and red, material and 
 immaterial, appearance and disappearance . . .” Simultaneously, Sarkis 
 illuminates the relationship between cinema and contemporary art. As 
 writer/critic Érik Bullot describes, “At a time when the relationships 
 between cinema and contemporary art are multiplying and questioning the 
 different frontiers of artistic practice, it is enlightening to observe the 
 delicate and violent film work of Sarkis.”\n\nA free public lecture given 
 by the artist will take place at SFAI on September 26 at 7:30pm.\nFor the 
 full press release visit: www.sfai.edu.\n\nSarkis Film Selections\n\nIn 
 conjunction with the exhibition, a complementary series of rare avant-garde 
 films, selected by the artist as influential to his work, will be screened 
 at SFAI in October and November. The film screening dates are as follows, 
 all screenings are free and take place at 7:30pm unless otherwise 
 noted.\n\n10/03: 		The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach, Jean-Marie Straub 
 and Danièle Huillet \n10/10: 		The Color of Pomegranates, Sergei 
 Paradjanov\n10/17: 		Ice, Robert Kramer\n10/24: 		Stalker, Andreï 
 Tarkovski\n10/31: 		One Plus One (Sympathy for the Devil), Jean-Luc 
 Godard\n11/04 & 11/05: 	Tie Xi Qu: West of Tracks \n		(10-hour film shown 
 in 3 parts both days: 11am–2pm, 2:30pm–5:30pm, 7pm–10pm)\n(TBA): 
 		The Seasons, Artavazd Pelechian \n\n\nPublication\n\nAn exhibition 
 catalogue with texts by Hou Hanru, Érik Bullot, and Okwui Enwezor is 
 forthcoming. \n\nSan Francisco Art Institute\n\nFounded in 1871, San 
 Francisco Art Institute is one of the US’s oldest and most prestigious 
 schools of higher education in contemporary art. SFAI’s academic and 
 public programs further the relationship between the practices and theories 
 of contemporary art. SFAI’s School of Studio Practice is centered on the 
 development of the artist’s vision through studio-based experiments and 
 the understanding that the artist is an essential part of society. The 
 School of Interdisciplinary Studies is based on the premise that critical 
 thinking and writing—informed by an in-depth understanding of theory and 
 practice—are essential for engaging global society. At SFAI, art is a way 
 of thinking. For more information, visit www.sfai.edu or call 
 800.345.7324.\n\nCredit Line\n\nThe exhibition Sarkis: Alive and After and 
 Sarkis’ public lecture are supported by a generous grant from Étant 
 donnés: The French-American Fund for Contemporary Art. This exhibition has 
 also been made possible by the support of Galerie Jean Brolly, Paris. 
 SFAI’s Public Programs are supported in part by the Grants for the Arts / 
 San Francisco Hotel Tax fund.\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/09/21/18313053.php
SUMMARY:SARKIS Public Lecture at SFAI
LOCATION:San Francisco Art Institute\n800 Chestnut 
 Street\n415.771.7020\nwww.sfai.edu
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/09/21/18313053.php
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