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Thursday arts picks
“SUBstainability.”
How we sustain ourselves emotionally, spiritually, physically and socially is at the crux of a major new exhibit co-curated by Texas State University gallery director Mary Mikel Stump and art historian Andy Campbell. At the heart of the exhibition is Felix Gonzalez-Torres’ seminal installation “Untitled (Placebo),” a massive work on loan from the Museum of Modern Art in New York. A vast field of silver cellophane-wrapped sweets, “Untitled (Placebo)” disappears by the end of the show as viewers are invited to take a candy. Works by Dario Robleto, Eve Andrée Laramée, Kiki Smith, Louise Bourgeois and David Maisel, among others, round out this super-energized show. Opening reception: 5 to 7 p.m. today. Exhibit continues through March 1. The Galleries at Texas State University, Sessoms and Comanche streets, San Marcos. Free. www.finearts.txstate.edu/Art/gallery.html.
“Ornament of Savage Tribes”
Artist Erin Curtis has a fascination with the built environment, especially institutional modernist architecture. But as a way to subvert modernism’s austerity, Curtis infuses her large-scale paintings and mixed-media drawings with a frenzy of pattern and color. Perspective gets skewed and the normally staid schools, supermarkets, apartments and office buildings pop with swarms of ornament. In Curtis’ hands, modernism is both celebrated and deconstructed. Opening reception: 7 to 9 p.m. today. Exhibit continues through Feb. 19. Champion, 800 Brazos St. Free. www.championcontemporary.com.
“Special Screening: Works by Keren Cytter”
The Tel Aviv-born Berlin-based artist has “Cross.Flowers.Rolex,” an engaging yet enigmatic three-channel video on view at Arthouse. And tonight you can catch several more of Cytter’s stylistic, sleek and intellectually smart videos. 7 p.m. today. Arthouse, 700 Congress Ave. Free. www.arthousetexas.org
Image: Fallery assistant Hannah Raymer straightens candy as”Untitled (Placebo) by Felix Gonzalez-Torres” is installed. Photo courtesy of Texas State University. “Untitled (Placebo),” 1991, on loan from the Museum of Modern Art, NY.
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