Artists: Guillaume Pallat, Lillian Bayley Hoover, and Audrey Collins Petrich
Exhibition Dates: February 7 - March 7, 2009
Opening Reception: Saturday, Feb. 7, 7-9 p.m.
Stemming from the theater, the French term mise en scène literally means "putting on stage." When applied to the cinema, mise-en-scène refers to everything that appears before the camera and its arrangement – sets, props, actors, costumes, and lighting.
Mise-en-scène also includes the positioning and movement of actors on the set, which is called blocking. These are all the areas overseen by the director, and thus, in French film credits, the director's title is metteur en scène, "putter on scene."
Paperwork Gallery
107 E. Preston Street
www.paperworkgallery.com
Abandon Ship, the last exhibition at the 30 South Calvert location, is an ongoing installation and simultaneous, creative destruction of the building before its official tear-down. Artists are invited to continue to contribute to the exhibition up until the day before demolition, as long as they are willing to let their pieces get destroyed with the building. Both awesome and a little sad, highlight from the exhibition include Gary Kachadourian's wheatpasted backyard and dumpster, A row boat by Audrey Collins Petrich, a collaborative papier mache installation that explodes through the ceiling, and the slick, cut-out wall text. Be sure to check it out before its gone!
