KEAN UNIVERSITY EXHIBITION
DUDA PENTEADO: ARTIST, EDUCATOR, FILMMAKER, AND CULTURAL ACTIVIST at KEAN UNIVERSITY EXHIBITION
UNION, N.J. — The Karl and Helen Burger Gallery at Kean University is hosting a solo exhibition of 30 artworks by Brazilian—American artist, Duda Penteado, from September 10th to December 12th, 2019
Thursday, September 19th, 2019; from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Duda Penteado is an artist who has lived in both the United States and Brazil for more than 20 years. His multidisciplinary work is based on performances, videos, installations, murals, sculptures, paintings, and other visual projects. Duda has dedicated much of his work to important issues related to peace, globalization, the diaspora, dual citizenship, and other geopolitical and social problems of the 21st Century. He is known for pushing the boundaries of the status quo in order to improve society through the power of art. Duda’s work has been exhibited at galleries, and museums throughout the United States and Brazil, as well as in Europe.
Duda Penteado creates artwork that provokes us to think about issues in our social and personal world — the work is visceral and visually engaging. The material installation includes sculptures made of real bones as well as high tech video. His creative vision literally cross-fertilizes primal imagery with modern culture provoking us to question our own personal values and the values of a conflicted yet “sophisticated” society we all depend on. How can citizens become agents of change in looking for a better tomorrow? - Neil Tetkowski, Director of University Galleries.
The Burger Gallery will include a viewing room for Penteado’s documentary entitled How Many Lives in which he exposes the reality of how gun violence has affected a group of young people in Jersey City and across the nation. To explore this issue, the artist directed the creation of a 180-foot mural painting with the participation of young people who have been directly or indirectly affected by this type of violence. The painting of this mural is the subject of the film.
For more information: www.kean.edu/kean-galleries, email galleries@kean.edu or call 908-737-0392. Gallery Hours: Monday - Friday 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Kean University Galleries has a rich and diverse exhibition program that highlights cultural issues, and is interdisciplinary in nature. Public programs are free and designed to educate and engage gallery visitors through the visual arts. Resulting dialogue further encourages visitors to think, share, question and collaborate. At Kean Galleries, we believe that art is an effective vehicle for building awareness of critical world issues and initiating social change.
