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Concurrently
with the Radiant Forms exhibition, MOCRA presents Twenty Contemplations
on the Infant Jesus: An Homage to Olivier Messiaen, a series of
etchings by Daniel P. Ramirez (b. 1941). Ramirez was regarded as one
of the finest minimalist artists in Chicago in the late 1970s and the
1980s. Now Professor Emeritus of Art at the University of Wisconsin,
Madison, Ramirez has noted the influence on his work of the music of
French composer Olivier Messiaen, the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein,
and the lines of Gothic architecture. First shown in 1981 at the Art
Institute of Chicago, this set of 20 small abstract etchings are a response
to Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant Jésus, the piano suite by
Messiaen that inspired Ramirez and gave his series its name. Composed
of strong geometric forms and precise lines, yet softened by nuances
of texture, these intimate works achieve a structural quality that makes
a fitting complement to the works of Meier and Holl. They are shown
for the first time in St. Louis on the occasion of the 60th anniversary
of Messiaen's Vingt Regards. |
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See
what the University
News has
to say about Twenty Contemplations. (9/9/04)
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