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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\nFree and Open to the Public\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/2006/09/21/18313055.php
SUMMARY:SARKIS: Alive and After
LOCATION:San Francisco Art Institute\n800 Chestnut 
 Street\n415.771.7020.\nwww.sfai.edu
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