The Cuentos Fair Trade initiative is a grassroots social enterprise
of the Cuentos Foundation in cooperation with family studio collectives
in Santa
Clara del Cobre, Michoacán, Mexico and other traditional
craft communities worldwide. Your purchase of these unique art
objects directly support these communities and our global collective
initiatives. In addition to these objects the Cuentos Fair Trade
Shop offers documentary videos, publications, and on special occasions
the opportunity to buy art from artists associated with the foundation.
Since its founding in 1998, Cuentos has produced numerous community-based
interdisciplinary projects, including its founding global village
project, Ritmo del Fuego / Rhythm of Fire - devoted to the art
and artisans of Santa
Clara del Cobre, Michoacán, Mexico. Cuentos maintains
a collection of exquisite museum quality copper art from Santa
Clara available as a resource base for study and for traveling
exhibition. Also available in our shop is the Cuentos’ book
and video documentary on Santa
Clara del Cobre.
Cuentos Foundation is proud to
present new video documentary tryphon: three sounds
to accompany the retrospective exhibition opening December 4 at
the Brauer Museum of Art. tryphon is available
for purchase from Cuentos. A catalogue
of the exhibition is available from the Brauer
Museum of Art and the Corbett
vs. Dempsey Gallery
tryphon: three sounds is a candid
portrait of the artist Thomas H. Kapsalis (b. 1925) that also
provides an intimate glimpse into the history of the Chicago art
scene. Drawing upon personal conversations with Kapsalis, the
documentary incorporates extensive images spanning his sixty year
career, including paintings, sculptures, ephemera, family photos,
and archival footage. Kapsalis contributed to the Chicago artist
milieu through over fifty years as a professor at the School of
the Art Institute of Chicago and continues to contribute through
his abstract paintings of impeccable resolution and presence.
These modernist-inspired works emanate a sensibility
that combines the Bauhaus aesthetic with a Dadaist irony and humor,
presented with the modesty and directness of the Midwest. Kapsalis’s
art and character exude a hard-won calm tempered through his life
experiences, such as his survival as a prisoner of war during
World War II.
tryphon was produced by the Cuentos
Foundation to accompany the retrospective exhibition “Thomas
H. Kapsalis: Artist’s House, Paintings and Sculpture, 1947-2008,”
December 4, 2009 - March 21, 2010. This major exhibition celebrating
the life and art of this leading abstract Chicago artist was curated
by John Corbett & Jim Dempsey and was organized by the Brauer
Museum of Art, Valparaiso University.
Cuentos Foundation presents tryphon:
three sounds the art of thomas h. kapsalis
Produced and Directed by Michele Feder-Nadoff
The video’s music includes unique recordings - a sound-work
by artist, Lou Mallozzi; traditional Greek and Turkish music by
Eric Ederer and Andrea Fishman; and flute improvisations by Corkey
Siegal and
tryphon’s video editor, Sharon Karp/ Media
Monster.
English
DVD FORMAT, NTSC ALL, Dolby digital
Total running time: 17 minutes
ISBN: 978-0-9741171-1-9
[ To purchase using check or money order please email a
request: support@cuentosfoundation.org
] |
DVD is $20.00
+ $5 S&H |
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Institutional Price:
$50.00 + $5 S&H |
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art building bridges / arte que construye puentes
ART is memory . ART builds bridges . ART is meaning . ART makes
sense
Cuentos at the Evanston Ethnic Arts Festival
promoting our new fair trade initiative, and especially the copper
maestros of Santa Clara del Cobre. (July 2009)