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February - Rendezvous Arts Season II | True Colors Baroque + Kimberly Jones / Jim Bachor
True Colors Baroque + Kimberly Jones
Enjoy the Valentine spirit via the 18th century with art songs about love and romance accompanied by the unique colors of period instrument strings instruments from the 1700s.
Wendy Benner and Emi Tanabe - violins
Anna Steinhoff - cello
Jason Moy - harpsichord
Kimberly Jones - soprano
Jim Bachor
Trying to leave your mark in this world fascinates me. Ancient history fascinates me.
Volunteering to work on an archaeological dig in Pompeii helped merge these two interests into my art. In the ancient world, mosaics were used to capture images of everyday life. These
colorful pieces of stone or glass set in mortar were the photographs of empires long past. Marble and glass do not fade. Mortar is mortar. An ancient mosaic looks exactly as intended by the artist who produced it over two millennia ago. What else can claim that kind of staying power? I find this idea simply amazing. Using the same materials, tools and methods of the archaic craftsmen, I create mosaics that speak of modern things in an ancient voice. My work locks into mortar unexpected concepts drawn from the present.
By harnessing and exploiting the limitations of this indestructible technique, my work surprises the viewer while challenging long-held notions of what a mosaic should be. Like low-tech pixels, hundreds if not thousands of tiny, hand-cut pieces of Italian glass and marble comprise my work.
This work is my mark.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Artifact Events, 4325 North Ravenswood Avenue, Chicago, United States
USD 30.00