Sculptor Saint Clair Cemin will give a lecture Tuesday, March 12, at 7:30 p.m. at the University of Colorado at Boulder in Sibell Wolle Fine Arts Building room N141.
Cemin creates art pieces that question our traditional concept of place, language and object identity using a variety of media including marble, bronze, wood, copper and porcelain. In his sculpturing Cemin addresses unusual formal, visual and verbal relationships through three-dimensional works.
Crucial elements in the objects that Cemin creates are metaphor and pun. Double meanings and altered functions challenge many of our preconceived notions of art, exchanging them for a provoking, dreamlike world where nothing is as it first seems.
Cemin was born in Cruz Alta, Brazil, in 1951. He moved to New York in 1978 and began creating sculptures in his studio. He has exhibited at galleries including the Carrie Secrist Gallery in Chicago, the Lever House Lobby Gallery in New York and the Galeria Camargo Vilacia in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
His work is part of many museum collections including the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles.
For information call (303) 492-2539.