Sat 9/7 @ noon
This Saturday marks the first, official collaborative exhibition between the Cleveland Museum of Art and Transformer Station. Hosted at Transformer Station, The Unicorn is an exhibition about memory and reconstructing the past. The Unicorn refers to the book with the same title by Martin Walser — whose work often questions how humans continually reshape the past.
The exhibition takes some of the thoughts developed in Walser’s writings as an open-ended starting point and nonbinding reference. The works in this group exhibition assume nothing survives as a static entity, and that memory is constructed by looking backwards from a constantly shifting point. What we call the past is unstable and modifiable. The unicorn as a mythical creature serves as a metaphor for the creative vitality of memory and points to artists exploring the line between documentation and art, truth and myth, fact and fiction.
From 1-4pm, pianists Emily Grabinski and Fangfei Chen perform works by Stravinsky, Auric, Milhaud, and Satie that were played during the original performances of the Surrealist fistfights at the Theatre Michel in the 1920s. At 4pm, actors will read excerpts of a play narrating the first fistfight of the Surrealists, in which André Breton jumped onto a Paris stage and broke Pierre de Massot’s arm with a strike of his cane. Characters include The Nose, The Arm, Sonia Delaunay, and The Color Green.
Participating artists: Neïl Beloufa, Martin Soto Climent, Haris Epaminonda & Daniel Gustav Cramer (The Infinite Library), Shana Lutker