Tony Tasset: Artists Monument
@ Grant Park
337 East Randolph Street, Chicago IL
Opening Saturday, February 20th, at 3 PM
Tony Tasset’s “Artists Monument” will be presented in collaboration by The Chicago Park District, The City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events and Kavi Gupta on February 20 at 3 p.m. at Grant Park (9th and Michigan). The “Artists Monument” coincides with Tasset’s solo exhibition Me and My Arrow at Kavi Gupta (219 N. Elizabeth Street) from March 18-April 23, 2016. The monument stretches eighty feet long, eight feet high and is carved with names of 392,485 artists ranging from Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol to emerging artists. The artists’ names are etched into colorful acrylic panels on two shipping containers and are listed alphabetically. The monument contrasts the typical somber memorial that honors tragic losses by offering a cheerful celebration of creativity. For the past three decades, Tasset’s work has been noted as some of the most sophisticate evaluation of Americana and domesticity in the art world. He has been a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago’s School of Art & Art History for the past 27 years.
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