Artist talks: Olimpia Zagnoli and Thukral and Tagra

Name: Artist talks: Olimpia Zagnoli and Thukral and Tagra
Start: 2024-09-25T17:00:00-04:00
Location: 601 Turner Blvd, Savannah, GA, United States, Georgia 31401

Schedule

Wed Sep 25 2024 at 05:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

601 Turner Blvd, Savannah, GA, United States, Georgia 31401 | Savannah, GA

Join SCAD Museum of Art exhibiting artists Olimpia Zagnoli and Thukral and Tagra for two artist talks exploring each of their newly opened exhibitions. The artists will speak on the use of dynamic imagery in their respective practices, which encompass painting, installation, and digital drawing. Zagnoli will discuss her approach to fusing art and design, illuminating the cultural and historical touch points that inform her site-specific works on view in the museum’s Jewel Boxes. Then, join Thukral and Tagra as they expound on the digital and natural influences that manifest in the hyperrealistic paintings in their series Arboretum.
About the artists
Olimpia Zagnoli (b. 1984, Emilia-Romagna, Italy) is an illustrator and multidisciplinary artist living and working in Milan. Zagnoli studied illustration and animation at the Istituto Europeo di Design (IED), graduating in 2007. Her vibrant body of work ranges in style and scale from sheets of stamps and espresso cups to multilevel murals and larger-than-life installations. Alongside her two-dimensional work for clients including The New Yorker, Vogue, Prada, Dior, the Guggenheim Museum, and Public Art Fund, she has experimented with kinetic sculptures, neon design, music videos, and ceramics. Zagnoli has exhibited work internationally at galleries in Milan, Los Angeles, and Düsseldorf, as well as institutions including Chiostri di San Pietro in Emilia-Romagna and the Sejong Center in Seoul.
Jiten Thukral (b. 1976, Jalandhar, Punjab, India) and Sumir Tagra (b. 1979, New Delhi, India) work collaboratively across a wide range of mediums including painting, sculpture, installation, interactive game design, video, and performance. Expanding the scope of what art can do, their multimodal sensory and immersive environments originate new formats of public engagement liberated from the mediated, disciplinary world. Their recent work engages with the interpretation of Indian mythological narratives and symbols and the ongoing social ramifications of the agrarian crisis throughout India. Thukral and Tagra have exhibited internationally at institutions including the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, London; Asian Art Museum, San Francisco; Kunstverein Ludwigsburg, Stuttgart, Germany; Pearl Lam Galleries, Singapore; Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada; Manchester Museum, U.K.; and Hilger Contemporary, Vienna, among many others.
This event is free and open to the public.