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Opening Saturday, June 27th, 2009 at 7pm
will be on view til October 18th, 2009
For more information please call: 713.529.6900 or email us
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Admission is Free
Open Wed.-Sun. 11am - 6pm
(detail) TIEMPO DETENIDO, installation, 1997
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BIO:
CARLOS RUNCIE-TANAKA (born Lima, 1958)
A one-time philosophy major at the Universidad Católica del Peru, Carlos Runcie-Tanaka chose instead to dedicate himself to the art of pottery making, undertaking studies in Brazil, Italy and Japan. He has had numerous solo exhibitions in Latin America, the United States, Japan and Italy, and he has participated in group and other collective exhibitions in Peru and abroad, representing his country in contemporary art exhibitions such as the IV and V Havana Biennial (1991 and 1994), the 49th Venice Biennale (2001), the 8th Cuenca Biennial, V Barro de America Biennial in Caracas and the 26th Sao Paulo Biennial (2004). In the last few years Runcie-Tanaka has also been invited to teach at prestigious American and Japanese universities as a guest professor and artist-in-residence. Since 1978 he has run a pottery studio in Lima, where, aside from his artwork, Runcie-Tanaka creates functional pieces made from stoneware clays and local materials that are fired in gas kilns reaching temperatures of 1,300ºC ˆ 2,375ºF.
For more information visit: http://www.carlosruncietanaka.com/menu.htm
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Carlos Runcie-Tanaka (born Lima, 1958)
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The Station Museum of Contemporary Art wishes to announce opening reception for its upcoming exhibition, FRAGMENTO, featuring the work of Carlos Runcie-Tanaka, on June 27, 2009 at 7 pm.
Carlos Runcie-Tanaka is an artist with superb artistic skills, compelling visual insights and a profoundly spiritual sense of mystery. He was born in Lima, Peru; his heritage is Peruvian, Japanese and English. Lima is the multi-cultural capital of Peru on the Pacific coast of South America. With over eight million inhabitants, Peru’s demographic consists of Indigenous people, Europeans, Americans and Afro-Peruvians. The predominant population are the Mestizos - they are of mixed blood of European and Indigenous ancestry. This cultural diversity is important to issues of personal and ethnic identity in all of contemporary art.
Tanaka is engaged in integrating his various sources and influences. His artwork presents contemporary universal symbols of interethnic unity. He has absorbed the lessons of traditional pottery and pioneered an approach that goes beyond obvious or direct references to traditional Peruvian, Japanese and European art. As a result, Tanaka’s works also bring the strands of his identity together with ancient mysteries that have a powerful contemporary resonance.
Carlos Runcie-Tanaka: FRAGMENTO will be on view from June 27, 2009 through October 18, 2009.
The Station Museum is located in Midtown on the corner of Alabama and La Branch.
The museum is open Wednesday through Sunday 11 a.m. - 6 p.m. Admission is free.
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