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DESCRIPTION:Event Name: Whale and Star Studio Presents: Matthew Biro Lectur
 e\, 'Kiefer in Barjac'\nEvent Url: http://www.artscalendar.com/event/detai
 l/441590585/Whale_and_Star_Studio_Presents_Matthew_Biro_Lecture_Kiefer_in_
 Barjac\nEvent Date Begin: 2012-05-16\nEvent Date End: 2012-05-16\n\nEnriqu
 e Martinez Celaya's Whale & Star Studio Lecture Series. On May 16\, 2012 a
 t 7pm\, Whale & Star Studio will present their tenth lecture of the season
 . Lecture 10 welcomes acclaimed Art History Professor\, Matthew Biro who w
 ill discuss 'La Ribaute\,' Anselm Kiefer's studio-estate in Barjac\, Franc
 e\, in his lectured titled 'Kiefer in Barjac.' The lecture is open to the 
 public\, with a $5 fee\, but RSVP's are necessary to the studio at 305-576
 -6160.\n\nBetween 1993 and 2007\, 'La Ribaute\,' Anselm Kiefer's studio-es
 tate in Barjac\, France\, also became his most developed artwork\, the sit
 e where the artist created\, collected\, and re-imagined his art\, while w
 orking with a fluctuating team of assistants. A former silk factory on a h
 ill that Kiefer transformed into a vast complex of living spaces\, studios
 \, workshops\, and storage facilities\, it was also an environment in whic
 h he created a new type of 'land art' consisting gigantic concrete structu
 res\, some reduced to postwar-like ruins\, amidst the rural French country
 side. Because of its monumentality\, its environmental and experiential qu
 alities\, and the fact that it synthesized multiple media\, 'La Ribaute\,'
  has been called a 'Gesamtkunstwerk\,' Kiefer's total work of art. This as
 sessment is\, as we shall see\, correct\, but with qualifications\, which 
 need to be drawn from the concept's history.\n\nMatthew Biro is Chair and 
 Professor in the Department of the History of Art and the University of Mi
 chigan. Originally trained as a continental philosopher\, he came to art h
 istory through an interest in aesthetics and visual thinking. He is the au
 thor of two books\, Anselm Kiefer and the Philosophy of Martin Heidegger (
 New York and London: Cambridge University Press\, 1998) and The Dada Cybor
 g: Visions of the New Human in Weimar Berlin (Minneapolis\, MN: University
  of Minnesota Press\, 2009)\, and his articles on modern and contemporary 
 art and philosophy have appeared in Art History\, the Yale Journal of Crit
 icism\, RES\, Art Criticism\, and New German Critique\, among other places
 . His reviews of contemporary art\, film\, and photography have appeared i
 n Artforum\, Contemporary\, Art Papers\, The New Art Examiner\, and he has
  also written for the Philadelphia Inquirer\, Clio\, CAA Reviews\, and the
  European Legacy. He is currently working on a book about the photographer
  Robert Heinecken.\n\nStart time: 7:00 p.m.
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SUMMARY:Whale and Star Studio Presents: Matthew Biro Lecture\, 'Kiefer in B
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