University of Chicago features a tour of Buky Schwartz’s 1974 Untitled
On June 5, 2015, the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory (3CT) hosted an event featuring a tour of Buky Schwartz’s 1974 Untitled sculpture.
The event was presented by two practicing artists, an art historian, and an anthropologist, discussing salvage art, reanimation, and the significance of these concepts for their respective disciplines and practices.
Christine Mehring, the panel’s art historian, co-presented with Elka Krajewska about their collaboration to reanimate Schwartz’s modular Untitled sculpture at Cottage Grove and 60th. Mehring is Department Chair and Professor of Art History at the University of Chicago; her research interests include abstraction, art and design, postwar Western Europe, and German art.