The Fine Arts Building Gallery, 410 S. Michigan Avenue, 60605 IL
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Our Sculptors Exhibitions
The Art Institute of Chicago is showing a major Gustave Caillebotte exhibition this summer, 'Gustave Caillebotte: Painting His World. Chicago Sculpture International (CSI) have invited 24 artists to create a contemporary dialogue with and response to Caillebotte's works. This exhibition with the title 'Impressions' will be held at the gallery of the historic The Fine Arts Building in downtown Chicago from 11 July - 25 August 2025. Roland Biermann's work in the exhibition is the diptych snow+concrete 45 A. In the form of screenprints from photographs, the diptych is printed on the front, sides, top and bottom of thick concrete panels, a new hybrid form, adding a three-dimensional element to the two-dimensional prints. The work shows a night scene in a car park. A yellow concrete barrier is covered with a thin line of snow and another barrier is not. In a subtle way, the organic material snow transforms the man-made architecture, similar to the way, snow transforms the architecture in Caillebotte's painting View of Rooftops (Snow Effect), 1878-79. In Caillebotte's painting, the snow is almost overpowering, hiding and concealing large parts of the architecture and transforming colour into a bleak, almost monochrome urban landscape. In Biermann's work, the amount of snow is very little, almost minimal, referencing man-made global warming and climate change.
The Fine Arts Building Gallery, 410 S. Michigan Avenue, 60605 IL
Free