Painter And Pataphysician Thomas Chimes

INTERVENTIONIST DADA-INSPIRED ART BOOK PARTY COME GET SURREALIST ART EDUCATED HAVE SOME ABSINTHE HEAR SOME BEAUTIFUL WORDS ABOUT ARTIST THOMAS CHIMES free admission More Info: https://slought.org/resources/painter_and_pataphysician including Music by James Wadsworth Strong Alfred Jarry impersonations by Julius Ferraro Puppets by Manon Manavit Reading by author Mari Shaw PERFORMANCE AT 6:30PM SHARP Slought is pleased to announce a book launch and performance organized around Mari Shaw's new book Painter and Pataphysician Thomas Chimes on Tuesday, February 24, 2015 from 6-9pm. During this dada performance, choreographed by theater group {HTP}, Shaw will read from her book alongside puppets, spirits, and live music by James Wadsworth Strong. The program will also include acting by Julius Ferraro along with interventions by artists Tristin Lowe, Stuart Netsky, and Jean-Michel Rabaté. Thomas Chimes, after enjoying success as a young artist in New York, followed the advice of Marcel Duchamp and lived as a hermit in his hometown of Philadelphia until his death in 2009. His experimentation with color, form, and iconography in the paintings and portraits he made brought him local recognition, culminating in a major retrospective at the Philadelphia Museum of Art a few years before his death. Since his death, his work has become recognized internationally, with an exhibition at Galerie der Stadt Tuttlingen in Germany, which travelled to the Bernaki Museum in Greece, as well as acquisitions by the Centre Pompidou museum. His work has been the subject of a recent book on 'pataphysics published by MIT Press, and was discussed during 'Pataphysics, Then and Now, an imaginative conference exploring the life, works, and continued influence of Alfred Jarry (1873-1907) and his "science of imaginary solutions".