Projects Highlight
Projections
Projections is an exhibition of paintings and video in which artist Marcelino Stuhmer is engaged with the history of painting, and cinema through the visual, metaphoric, and narrative use of projection. There is a focus on the still image removed from, yet inextricably linked to the indexical pattern of cinematic and photographic time. Stuhmer is …
The Trials of Josef K, Painting, Collage, Performance, Writing and Photography, 2015-present
One concept that is crucial to the narrative structures that I have developed in this body of work is that of ‘belief’. To create a world that may be completely estranged from our reality, but with an incredibly precise language used to construct that other place, outside our own space, narrative, and time. In this …
The Choreographed Accident: Objects, Images, and Artifacts from the The Pawel Avorsky Museum, Warsaw
The Choreographed Accident: Objects, Images, and Artifacts from the The Pawel Avorsky Museum, Warsaw, 2009-14 is a narrative project. Former British Intelligence Agent Paul Avery (1926-1964), alias Pawel Avorsky, worked undercover in Communist Warsaw from 1951-1964. Avery received a remarkable posthumous notoriety when in October 1987, Elizabeth Cummings, the resident at 84 Walton Street in …
Get Ready to Shoot Yourself, Painting and Video installation
This installation references the ambiguity of space and time as it is depicted in the final dramatic shootout in a hall of mirrors in Orson Welles’s 1947 film, The Lady From Shanghai. The installation consists of a network of paintings, mirrored surfaces, and empty black metal frames that make direct architectural reference to a traditional …
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The Crystal Image, Arte Laguna Prize, Venice Arsenale, Venice, Italy
This sculptural installation The Crystal Image was installed in Venice, Italy, in 2010 inside the historic Venice Arsenalle for the Arte Laguna Prize. I was named Best International Artist This installation references the ambiguity of space and time as it is depicted in the final dramatic shootout in a hall of mirrors in Orson Welles’s …
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Cinematic Bodies at Zolla Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, Curated by Jamie Adams
Cinematic Bodies, curated by Jamie Adams List of artists: Roland Becerra, Melanie Bonajo, Christopher Brown, Michael Byron, Peter Drake,Teodor Dumitrescu, Vernon Fisher, Cameron Gray, Jane Hammond, David Humphrey, Katharine Kuharic, Kris Lewis, Heather Marshall, Elizabeth Peyton, Jennifer Present, Carly Silverman, Al Souza, Marcelino Stuhmer, Rosemary Warner, Robin Williams, Su-en Wong, Jamie Adams Venue: Zolla Lieberman …
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The Recurring Dream Panoramic Painting, 8ft high X 12ft diameter
The Recurring Dream is a large-scale panoramic painting measuring 8 ft. high, 12 ft in diameter (2.44m high X 3.66m diameter). It depicts the famous dream sequence from The Manchurian Candidate (1962); in this scene, Frank Sinatra’s character, Major Bennet Marco, is having a horrific recurring nightmare. The camera slowly pans 360º around the room, …
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Myth Today (for Roland Barthes)
The May 15, 2007 clipping from the front page of the New York Times that I used to create this piece includes a photograph taken by Palestinian photographer Mohammed Abed. The caption reads “A Palestinian youth standing near a burning vehicle today during clashes between political rivals Fatah and Hamas in Gaza City”. Abed’s photograph …
I’ll Be Seeing You, Video Installation, Sound Piece, Photographs, and Paintings
Memory, is an imperfect collage. By creating confusion and distance between images and the words that describe them, between the sounds, music and spaces of an experience, issues of interpretation and language not only arise but also become part of the content. The viewer is left to examine their own experiences against the everyday narratives …
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