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Saskia Olde Wolbers Pareidolia 2011 PAL HD Video (looped), aspect ratio 16:9 © Courtesy of the artist and Maureen Paley, London Enjoy art with your family! Use this guide to investigate works of art in the gallery together through interactive looking activities. Start by having each member of your group select their favorite work of art in the exhibition Trap- ping Lions in the Scottish Highlands. Then take turns investigating the works each of you chose by following this easy, four-step process. LOOK Slow down and stay a while Take a moment to look closely and silently at the work of art you selected. After looking, share what you see with the group. Stay with the work of art longer by asking yourselves, “What more can we find?” The longer you look, the more you will experience. EXPLORE Have a conversation After looking closely at the details, share what is happening in each selected work of art. As you explore and express your ideas, make sure to point out what you are seeing. When another family member makes a connection or shares an idea, be sure to ask them, “What do you see that makes you say that?” (Keep in mind the meaning of a contemporary artwork is usually open- ended. There can be multiple interpretations based on a variety of individual perspectives and more than one “right” answer.) Ask questions • What is the mood of the work? How do you know? • How do you think the artist made this work? • If you could ask the artist a question about this work, what would you ask? Sketch in the gallery spaces Using the clipboards, paper, and pencils found on the artCART, sketch your favorite works of art. CONNECT Trapping Lions in the Scottish Highlands is a group show that examines the ambiguity and complexities of narratives in recent art. The artworks in the exhibition employ a range of tactics to blur the lines between fiction and reality. The viewer is often asked to play the role of detective, to explore what is real and what is invented by the artist. CREATE Now it’s your turn. Use the materials located at the artCART to cre- ate your own works of art inspired by the artists in Trapping Lions in the Scottish Highlands. See the reverse side of this sheet for instructions and ideas. Trapping Lions in the Scottish Highlands Trapping Lions in the Scottish Highlands includes works by Mac Adams, Matthew Brannon, Victor Burgin, Katarina Burin, Gerard Byrne, Alejandro Cesarco, Saskia Olde Wolbers, John Smith, and Kerry Tribe. Trapping Lions in the Scottish Highlands is organized by the AAM and funded in part by the AAM National Council with additional exhibition support provided by the Bruce T. Halle Family Foundation for Latin American Art. General exhibition support is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Exhibition lectures are presented as part of the Questrom Lecture Series and educational outreach programming is made possible by the Questrom Education Fund.
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Saskia Olde WolbersPareidolia2011PAL HD Video (looped), aspect ratio 16:9© Courtesy of the artist and Maureen Paley, London
Enjoy art with your family!Use this guide to investigate works of art in the gallery together through interactive looking activities. Start by having each member of your group select their favorite work of art in the exhibition Trap-ping Lions in the Scottish Highlands. Then take turns investigating the works each of you chose by following this easy, four-step process.
LOOK Slow down and stay a whileTake a moment to look closely and silently at the work of art you selected. After looking, share what you see with the group. Stay with the work of art longer by asking yourselves, “What more can we find?” The longer you look, the more you will experience.
EXPLOREHave a conversationAfter looking closely at the details, share what is happening in each selected work of art. As you explore and express your ideas, make sure to point out what you are seeing. When another family member makes a connection or shares an idea, be sure to ask them, “What do you see that makes you say that?” (Keep in mind the meaning of a contemporary artwork is usually open-ended. There can be multiple interpretations based on a variety of individual perspectives and more than one “right” answer.)
Ask questions• What is the mood of the work? How do you know?• How do you think the artist made this work?• If you could ask the artist a question about this work, what would you ask?
Sketch in the gallery spacesUsing the clipboards, paper, and pencils found on the artCART, sketch your favorite works of art.
CONNECTTrapping Lions in the Scottish Highlands is a group show that examines the ambiguity and complexities of narratives in recent art. The artworks in the exhibition employ a range of tactics to blur the lines between fiction and reality. The viewer is often asked to play the role of detective, to explore what is real and what is invented by the artist.
CREATENow it’s your turn. Use the materials located at the artCART to cre-ate your own works of art inspired by the artists in Trapping Lions in the Scottish Highlands. See the reverse side of this sheet for instructions and ideas.
Trapping Lions
in the
Scottish Highlands
Trapping Lions in the Scottish Highlands includes works by Mac Adams, Matthew Brannon, Victor Burgin, Katarina Burin, Gerard Byrne, Alejandro Cesarco, Saskia Olde Wolbers, John Smith, and Kerry Tribe.
Trapping Lions in the Scottish Highlands is organized by the AAM and funded in part by the AAM National Council with additional exhibition support provided by the Bruce T. Halle Family Foundation for Latin American Art. General exhibition support is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Exhibition lectures are presented as part of the Questrom Lecture Series and educational outreach programming is made possible by the Questrom Education Fund.
The title for this exhibition is taken from Alfred Hitchcock’s explanation of the MacGuffin, the seemingly indispensible but ultimately arbitrary device by which narrative is propelled.
It might be a Scottish name, taken from a story about two men on a train. One man says, “What’s that package up there in the baggage rack?”And the other answers, “Oh, that’s a MacGuffin.”The first one asks, “What’s a MacGuffin?”“Well,” the other man says, “it’s an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands.”The first man says, “But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands,” and the other one answers, “Well then, that’s no MacGuffin!” So you see that a MacGuffin is actually nothing at all.
-Alfred Hitchcock
Now it’s your turn
With your family or friend, think about a movie to invent. Ask your selves: What will your movie be about? Who will star in it? Will it win any awards such as Best Picture? On what date will your movie be released? What will the title of your movie be? Now, using the supplies on the artCART and Matthew Brannon’s movie poster for inspiration, create a movie poster of your own. Use your artistic skills to imitate a movie poster, one that might convince the viewer to believe it is real.
About the Artist Matthew Brannon
Matthew Brannon discovered a nostalgic model for his artwork in B-movie posters from the ’40s and ’50s. As noted in Double Features (The Nostalgia for Postmodernism), 2013, Matthew has utilized a mimic’s skill to conjure up his own text and imagery for a movie that to the viewing eye, seems real.
Matthew was born in 1971. He lives and works in New York, NY.
Matthew Brannon
Double Features (The Nostalgia for Postmodernism)
2013
Silkscreen on paper
38 x 28 1/2 inches
Courtesy of the artist and Casey Kaplan, New York
The AAM provides art supplies at the artCART to facilitate sketching, writing, and other in-gallery activities.
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Trapping Lions in the Scottish Highlands
