David Schutter: Rendition
February 15 - March 31, 2013
Logan Center Gallery
RECEPTION on Friday March 1, at 6 pm.
David Schutter will lead a tour of his exhibition beginning at approximately 6:30 pm.
CONVERSATION on Wednesday, March 6, at 7:30 pm, Logan 901 (Penthouse).
Matthew Jesse Jackson (Associate Professor of Art History, the Department of Visual Arts, and the College, University of Chicago) and Dieter Roelstraete (Manilow Senior Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago) join the artist and curator in conversation.
Logan Center Exhibitions presents Rendition, an exhibition by the Chicago-based artist David Schutter exploring the contemporary life of historical painting.
Rendition, a word implying the act of making, of interpretation, of taking a thing from one place to another by force, has its origin in the obsolete French or late Latin redditiō, meaning “return” in the sense of giving back. It proves to be a fitting title for a suite of paintings based on an ensemble by a 19th century French landscape painter, which currently hangs in gallery 224 of the Art Institute of Chicago and to which the artist has returned on his habitual visits to the museum. The experience of images in a gallery, that purposeful chamber engineered for contemplative looking, and the encounter both bodily and cerebral with historical things whose allegories may have been lost with time, yet whose surfaces yield new problems and pleasures in equal measure, remains the crux of Schutter’s practice.
At the Logan Center Gallery, David Schutter presents his four new paintings in a room built specifically to the scale of the gallery which houses the four historical canvases that he has chosen to render. Scale aside, it may be difficult to recognize the origin of this presentation. But can we put scale aside? And what exactly is our relation to origins in this post-indexical era of pixels – of copies without originals?
A new photogravure presented in the adjacent gallery provides not so much an answer as a passage – a mise-en-abîme.
Curated by Monika Szewczyk, Visual Arts Program Curator, Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts.
TELEVISIONISM -- featuring David Schutter in conversation with Hamza Walker
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David Schutter has exhibited at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Gemäldegalerie Berlin, Germany; the National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland; and with Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York; Tony Wight Gallery, Chicago; and Aurel Scheibler, Berlin, Germany. Public collections include the Art Institute of Chicago; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin, Germany; and the National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland. Schutter received his MFA from the University of Chicago and completed his undergraduate studies at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia. From May 5 to August 25, 2013 the exhibition Other Modernisms: Serge Charchoune (1889-1975), which Schutter co-curates with Merlin James, will be on view at the Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Visual Arts, University of Chicago.
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Thank you to everyone who helped in making this exhibition possible: Nancy Briggs, Nick Bastis, Jinn Bronwen Lee, Cindy Chen, Stephanie Harris Trevor, Saori Den, Nicole Foti, Hannah Givler, Mike Gibisser, Katherine Harvath, Adam Holtzman, Deone Jackman, Matthew Jesse Jackson, Joseph Mault, Lucille Schutter, Jim Prinz, Tucker Rae-Grant, Dieter Roelstraete, Fred Schmidt Arenales, Miriam Stevens, Hamza Walker, Yechen Zhao; as well as Aurel Scheibler and Bendetta Roux of Aurel Scheibler, Berlin; Lisa B. Dorin, Adrienne Lynn Jeske, and James Rondeau of the Art Institute of Chicago; the faculty and students of the Department of Visual Arts, University of Chicago; Paul Taylor and Courtney Sennish of Renaissance Press; Seaberg Framing; and all the dedicated staff of the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts.