ex post facto, Paul Bruner's Visual Poetry in Nova Caesarea (New Jersey)
Rabbet Gallery is proud to present “ex post facto, Paul Bruner's Visual Poetry in Nova Caesarea (New Jersey)”. The show will open Thursday, September 20th with a reception open to the public.
Paul Bruner has been a professor of Visual Arts at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, since 1979. After retiring this past July, 2007 ,as Professor Emeritus, Paul will be exhibiting art works in visual poetry, graphic installation and live performance spanning from 1967 to the present.
The 1967 work is based on Tadeusz Rozewicz's 1950 holocaust poem, "The Plains,". This begins Paul's visual interest in the psychological interaction of memory and perception in a specific time and place. This artist-book created as a graphic poem is in the Museum of Modern Art Library, The Franklin Furnace National Artist Book Archives and in the Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ. The full poem has never before been for public viewing. Bruner will perform his most recent poem, "In the Neck of Time."
Paul will be exhibiting six installations and performance poems focusing on the theme of necromantic, (after the fact), father-love performed between 2000 and 2004 bracket Bruner's 2003 video-performance poem, "Won't It Be Wonderful There. The 48 minute video started shooting in 1989 and was not finalized until 2003. Paul appropriates his own commercial art work for Hollywood movie advertising and integrates this work with his sense of the sacred and eternal aspects of father love. All of the work is interactive as a eulogy to the Common Man--and an elegy to the 2Oth Century, the American Century. Two "facts" inform Paul's father-love poems and performances: Paul's father was a late-life ordained Methodist minister. This anchors Paul's sense of the sacred. Paul's mother, a high school Latin teacher, initiated his sense of myth and humanism in the writings of classic poets, Virgil and Ovid.
There will be two screenings for Paul Bruner’s performance poems as follow:
Screening Schedule at MGSA, 33 Livingston Ave. , New Brunswick, room 326, Sunday, October 7 and Sunday October 14, 2:30-4:00.
Installation and performance poems, Postreproductive Man (34 minutes)
Video performance poem, Won't It Be Wonderful There (48 minutes)
RSVP (732) 932-2222 x807 (Paul Bruner’s voice-mail at Mason Gross School of the Arts)
Website: paulbruner-postreproductionman.com (after Sept 10, 2007)
Rabbet Gallery Inc. is open to the public Tuesday through Friday from 9-5 pm and Saturday from 10-3 pm. or by appointment. For further information please contact Dot or John Paolo at 732-828-5150.