This spring the Art Institute of Chicago joins forces with The Arts Club of Chicago to host a pair of exhibitions featuring the work of Jean-Luc Mylayne (French, born 1946). The shows unite inside and outside, nature and culture, and bring together again two Chicago institutions that have deep historical ties. Further connecting the twin exhibitions is a third element, a public building in Millennium Park’s Lurie Garden featuring a 30-foot-long photographic fresco covering its entire ceiling.
Mylayne has devoted four decades to working with common birds as “actors” in a profound investigation of aesthetics and community. The photographs, typically printed at grand dimensions, are each unique and can take months to prepare. Week after week, at a precise place, in a chosen season, Mylayne and his life partner, Mylène Mylayne, set up cumbersome camera equipment and wait until one or more of the individual birds he has previously identified—and who often seem to recognize him in turn—come to occupy the position he had imagined in his picture.
The Millennium Park building, designed by Chicago architects Dan Wheeler and Joy Meek, is free and open to the public daily 11:00–7:00 throughout the exhibition. Calm and hushed, it is a windowless chapel that offers the miraculous image of a solitary sparrow, apparently perched just above our heads, at the exact corner of a square roof under a brilliant, cloudless sky. The bird is doing something nearly inconceivable: allowing a potential predator to approach from underneath. And visitors have the chance to do something rare enough in our times: transcend our self-imposed barriers to join freely with an Other.
SponsorsJean-Luc Mylayne: Mutual Regard is co-organized by the Art Institute of Chicago and The Arts Club of Chicago.
The exhibition is made possible by Lannan Foundation.
C16 April 1987, Small Chapel for One Person or at Most a Couple (1987), a public project presented by the Art Institute of Chicago for the Millennium Park Lurie Garden in 2015, has been realized in collaboration with V-A-C Foundation and Lannan Foundation. Significant additional support has been provided by Constance R. Caplan and The Arts Club of Chicago. The assistance of Wheeler Kearns Architects, Bulley & Andrews, and Lux Populi is gratefully acknowledged.
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The Art Institute of ChicagoWells Fargo Center111 South Michigan Avenue IL 60603Chicago, الولايات المتحدة الأمريكيةThe Art Institute of ChicagoWells Fargo Center111 South Michigan Avenue IL 60603Chicago, الولايات المتحدة الأمريكيةThis spring the Art Institute of Chicago joins forces with The Arts Club of Chicago to host a pair of exhibitions featuring the work of Jean-Luc Mylayne (French, born 1946). The shows unite inside and outside, nature and culture, and bring together again two Chicago institutions that have deep historical ties. Further connecting the twin exhibitions is a third element, a public building in Millennium Park’s Lurie Garden featuring a 30-foot-long photographic fresco covering its entire ceiling.
Mylayne has devoted four decades to working with common birds as “actors” in a profound investigation of aesthetics and community. The photographs, typically printed at grand dimensions, are each unique and can take months to prepare. Week after week, at a precise place, in a chosen season, Mylayne and his life partner, Mylène Mylayne, set up cumbersome camera equipment and wait until one or more of the individual birds he has previously identified—and who often seem to recognize him in turn—come to occupy the position he had imagined in his picture.
The Millennium Park building, designed by Chicago architects Dan Wheeler and Joy Meek, is free and open to the public daily 11:00–7:00 throughout the exhibition. Calm and hushed, it is a windowless chapel that offers the miraculous image of a solitary sparrow, apparently perched just above our heads, at the exact corner of a square roof under a brilliant, cloudless sky. The bird is doing something nearly inconceivable: allowing a potential predator to approach from underneath. And visitors have the chance to do something rare enough in our times: transcend our self-imposed barriers to join freely with an Other.
SponsorsJean-Luc Mylayne: Mutual Regard is co-organized by the Art Institute of Chicago and The Arts Club of Chicago.
The exhibition is made possible by Lannan Foundation.
C16 April 1987, Small Chapel for One Person or at Most a Couple (1987), a public project presented by the Art Institute of Chicago for the Millennium Park Lurie Garden in 2015, has been realized in collaboration with V-A-C Foundation and Lannan Foundation. Significant additional support has been provided by Constance R. Caplan and The Arts Club of Chicago. The assistance of Wheeler Kearns Architects, Bulley & Andrews, and Lux Populi is gratefully acknowledged. Book tickets
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