SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8TH
SHOW DAY FOUR
SHOW DAY FOUR
4:00pm The Gronk/Sellars Conversation
Panelists: Gronk; Peter Sellars
Location: DIVERSEartLA – LACMA/UCLA Booth #102
Dialog: Two legendary L.A.-based artists will discuss their theatrical and opera collaborations around the world over the last three decades. Gronk and Sellars will also share their experience and thoughts on the role of art in a time of profound social upheaval and inequity. The conversation will take place on Gronk’s installation Pyramids, a full-size mock-up of a theatrical stage that Gronk will be painting throughout the run of the L.A. Art Show.
Pyramids re-imagines Gronk’s 2013 set design for Sellar’s Purcell’s The Indian Queen, an innovative updating of the 1695 semi-opera. For the LA Art Show, Gronk brings the piece into 2020, while also on providing visitors with a behind-the-curtain view of his artistic practice. Rather than enter a theater where the stage is already set, visitors will be able to interact with the artist, participating in the process of making a “political theater” for our contemporary moment.
Gronk is a featured artist in DIVERSEartLA, where his project brings together elements of his lifelong work as painter, muralist, performance artist, set designer, sculptor, and printmaker. His expansive art flows out of his DTLA studio into the hallway, where the resulting 40-foot long wall mural has been declared a city landmark.
Peter Sellars is a renowned theater, opera, and festival director. He is co-organizer of the exhibition Inside the Mask, on Central American masks after the Conquista, which opens at the Hammer Museum on February 15.
Location: DIVERSEartLA – LACMA/UCLA Booth #102
Dialog: Two legendary L.A.-based artists will discuss their theatrical and opera collaborations around the world over the last three decades. Gronk and Sellars will also share their experience and thoughts on the role of art in a time of profound social upheaval and inequity. The conversation will take place on Gronk’s installation Pyramids, a full-size mock-up of a theatrical stage that Gronk will be painting throughout the run of the L.A. Art Show.
Pyramids re-imagines Gronk’s 2013 set design for Sellar’s Purcell’s The Indian Queen, an innovative updating of the 1695 semi-opera. For the LA Art Show, Gronk brings the piece into 2020, while also on providing visitors with a behind-the-curtain view of his artistic practice. Rather than enter a theater where the stage is already set, visitors will be able to interact with the artist, participating in the process of making a “political theater” for our contemporary moment.
Gronk is a featured artist in DIVERSEartLA, where his project brings together elements of his lifelong work as painter, muralist, performance artist, set designer, sculptor, and printmaker. His expansive art flows out of his DTLA studio into the hallway, where the resulting 40-foot long wall mural has been declared a city landmark.
Peter Sellars is a renowned theater, opera, and festival director. He is co-organizer of the exhibition Inside the Mask, on Central American masks after the Conquista, which opens at the Hammer Museum on February 15.
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