{"id":7145,"date":"2016-11-18T12:58:01","date_gmt":"2016-11-18T18:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.saic.edu\/cate\/?p=7145"},"modified":"2025-01-09T21:39:07","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T03:39:07","slug":"thursday-december-1-text-of-light-and-films-by-laszlo-moholy-nagy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2016\/11\/18\/thursday-december-1-text-of-light-and-films-by-laszlo-moholy-nagy\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday, December 1 – Text of Light and films by L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Moholy-Nagy"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Art Institute of Chicago,\u00a0Rubloff Auditorium \u00a0(please use Modern Wing entrance, 159 E. Monroe Street)<\/em>
\nFREE, registration required. Register here.\u00a0<\/a><\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Still from Lightplay: Black-White-Gray (L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Moholy-Nagy, 1930).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Film and photography played central roles in the work of pioneering artist and designer <\/span>L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Moholy-Nagy<\/span>, who experimented with light, abstraction, and staccato montage throughout his career. For this program, the improvisational group <\/span>Text of Light<\/span>, led by guitarists Lee Ranaldo and Alan Licht, performs alongside a selection of Moholy-Nagy\u2019s radically inventive works including the spectacular <\/span>Lightplay: Black-White-Gray<\/span><\/i> (1930) and Berlin Still Life<\/em> (1932), a portrait of the city’s\u00a0economic climate in the years leading up to World War II. Joined by percussionist Tim Barnes, the musicians layer guitar, effects, and low-grade feedback, playing off one another to generate new aural spaces and insight to Moholy-Nagy\u2019s visionary work.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

1929\u20132016, Germany\/France\/USA, multiple formats, ca 50 min<\/em><\/p>\n

Presented in collaboration with the Art Institute of Chicago in conjunction with <\/span><\/i>Moholy-Nagy: Future Present.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Text of Light<\/strong><\/a> (2000) is a collective of experimental musicians who perform live, improvised scores to works by American avant-garde filmmakers, primarily of the 1950s and \u201860s. The group has performed at the Victoriaville Music Festival, Canada; Three Rivers Film Festival, Pittsburgh; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; and the Whitney Museum, New York; and toured Europe in addition to playing various clubs and cinemas in New York and elsewhere. Founded by\u00a0Lee Ranaldo<\/a> and Alan Licht<\/a>, members of the group have included Christian Marclay<\/a>, DJ Olive<\/a>, William Hooker<\/a>, Ulrich Krieger,<\/a> and Tim Barnes.<\/a><\/p>\n

L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Moholy-Nagy<\/strong><\/a> (<\/span>b. 1895, Bors\u00f3d, Austria-Hungary; d. 1946, Chicago)<\/span> was an abstract painter, designer, typographer, photographer, filmmaker, and theorist who believed in the integration of technology and industry into the arts. He was an influential professor at the Weimar and Dessau Bauhaus and established the highly influential Institute of Design in Chicago. His posthumous exhibitions include <\/span>In Memoriam: L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Moholy-Nagy<\/span><\/i>, the Museum of Non-Objective Painting, New York (1947); <\/span>L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Moholy-Nagy<\/span><\/i>, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (1969); <\/span>L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Moholy-Nagy<\/span><\/i>, Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno Centre Julio Gonzalez, Valencia, Spain (1991); <\/span>Technical Detours: The Early Works of Moholy-Nagy Reconsidered<\/span><\/i>, Art Gallery of the CUNY Graduate Center, New York (2006); <\/span>Laszlo Moholy-Nagy: Retrospektive<\/span><\/i>, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt (2010); <\/span>Moholy-Nagy: El arte de la Luz<\/span><\/i>, Circulo de bellas artes, Madrid (2010); and <\/span>Moholy-Nagy: Future Present<\/span><\/i>, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Art Institute of Chicago, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2016\u201317).<\/span><\/p>\n

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Text of Light. Photo by Teho Teardo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Art Institute of Chicago,\u00a0Rubloff Auditorium \u00a0(please use Modern Wing entrance, 159 E. Monroe Street) FREE, registration required. Register here.\u00a0 Film and photography played central roles in the work of pioneering artist and designer L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Moholy-Nagy, who experimented with light, abstraction, and staccato montage throughout his career. For this program, the improvisational group Text of […]<\/p>\n

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