26 September, Friday, 7:00 p.m.
Kim Gallery
GALLERY TALK
"Understanding Michaux"
Hood Director Michael Taylor will discuss a work on paper in the museum's collection by the Belgian-born artist, poet, and writer Henri Michaux (1899–1984). Completed in 1960, Michaux's No. 8 demonstrates the artist's instantly recognizable painting style: deft spontaneous strokes of ink and watercolor create an all-over composition in which heads and bodies emerge and metamorphose with hallucinatory intensity. This gallery talk is offered in conjunction with the Compagnie Marie Chouinard contemporary dance performance at the Hopkins Center. The artwork will be displayed for the duration of the presentation only.