Cinema and music merge in ‘Lightscape’ at Marciano
WEEKLY MUSICAL performances will be featured in the exhibit.
LIGHTSCAPE is a multimedia artwork.
A large-scale, multi-screen installation by artist Doug Aitken is accompanied by music by the Los Angeles Master Chorale and the Los Angeles
Philharmonic in a new exhibit at the Marciano Art Foundation (MAF).
CINEMATIC IMAGES of Southern California and the American West are portrayed on large-scale screens in the exhibit “Lightscape” at the Marciano Art Foundation Theater Gallery.
The exhibition, Lightscape, features cinematic images of Southern California and the American West in the MAF’s giant Theater Gallery on the first floor. On the third floor is an exhibit of varied works from the Marciano collection.
OPENING CONCURRENTLY with Landscape is the exhibit Quaternion in the Marciano Library.
Weekly performances accompanying Lightscape will begin Sat., Jan. 11, at 2 p.m., with eight singers from the Master Chorale. Music from the cinematic artwork’s soundtrack by minimalists Philip Glass, Meredith Monk and Steve Reich will be featured.
The LA Phil New Music Group will present its first on-site performance Sat., Jan. 18.
Opening concurrently at MAF, inside the Marciano Library, is Quaternion, by artists Kristen Wentrcek and Andrew Zebulon.
The exhibit features newly commissioned comfortable furniture made of foam to encourage reading and conversation.
The furniture ensemble draws on materials and the history of the MAF building designed in 1961 by Millard Sheets as a large Masonic theater and lodge rooms. The building was reconceived by Kulapat Yantrasast of wHY architects as a contemporary art space that opened in 2017.
EXHIBIT continues at the Marciano Art Foundation through Sat., March 15.
The exhibit’s title, Quaternion, comes from the double-headed Quaternion Eagle, a symbol of Scottish Rite Freemasonry.
To view the exhibits and attend weekly programs, visit marcianoartfoundation.org. Attendance is free but reservations are required. Lightscape continues through Sat., March 15. The Quaternion exhibit is ongoing.
Marciano Art Foundation is at 4357 Wilshire Blvd., with free parking available at the Lucerne Boulevard entrance.
NEWLY COMMISSIONED FURNITURE and materials drawn from the building’s Masonic history are featured in the Quaternion exhibit. Millard Sheets painting is on the wall.
For more on Lightscape, visit lightscapeart.org.
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