Event Listing - Museums
Sat Mar 20, 2010 - Sun Apr 25, 2010

Death’s Boutique; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts


Tel. 415.978.2787
Website
Tickets
Box Office: 415.978.2787

Location
Date and Time
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA)
701 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94103 map
cross street: 3rd St.
district: SoMa

Sat Mar 20, 2010 (12-8)
Sun Mar 21, 2010 (12-6)
Thu Mar 25, 2010 (2-8)
Fri Mar 26, 2010 (2-8)
Sat Mar 27, 2010 (12-8)

Description
Death’s Boutique is a collaboration featuring new work between Los Angeles-based artists Marco Rios and Kara Tanaka. For their first artistic collaborative project together, these avid fanatics of literature and cinema coalesce their interests and base their exhibition on a 21st century self-invented mythological narrative inspired by Michelangelo Antonioni's 1975 film The Passenger.

The artist’s collaboration translates key moments and issues within the film through a series of sculptures, drawings and re-appropriated video that address issues of death, spirituality and melancholia. The installation for the project mimics an elaborate stage set and includes source materials and ephemera that focus on adopting unconventional materials to create hybrid sculptures that mine an intimate personal psychology.

A series of interactive events with Rios and Tanaka are scheduled during the first week of their installation. Please visit www.ybca.org for more information.