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Surrealist Art & the Pursuit of Happiness Explored in Existential Shadow Imagery Performance at NSU’s Library
This is not your ordinary puppet show! Intense visuals and masterful storytelling create a truly unique audience experience.
FT. LAUDERDALE-DAVIE, Fla. – Nova Southeastern University’s (NSU) Alvin Sherman Library, Research, and Information Technology Center will continue its Ferro Fine Arts Series in 2010 with an exciting new production: Pablo Cano and Jim Hammond’s DOG – a Deceptively Simple, Surreal Shadow Puppet 
Show on Saturday, March 13 at 2 p.m. in the Second Floor Gallery.
Pablo Cano, renowned South Florida found-object artist and creator of whimsical sculptures and marionettes and Jim Hammond, puppet designer, producer, artistic director (credits include The Lion King, and Snow White) expand your imagination with their presentation of DOG.
DOG asserts that everyone has a beautiful idea they chase, perhaps a simple thing that makes them happy. When this pursuit is just out of reach, havoc is inevitable. When the object is finally caught, what will be our response? The heroine of DOG pursues a “Red Squeaky Ball” as a simple metaphor for each of our simplest pursuits of happiness.
The images in DOG range from playful to emotionally powerful. This deceptively simple shadow puppet play leads us through reinterpretations of 10 great works of art, in a surreal, non-linear world. Artwork explored includes:
- Sunday Afternoon at La Grand Jatte, by Georges Seurat
- The Last Judgment, by a Spanish Romanesque unknown artist
- Golden Fish, by Paul Klee
- Scream, by Edvard Munch
- Composition in Red, Yellow and Blue, by Piet Mondrian
- Wheel, by Marcel Duchamp
- Person Throwing a Stone, by Joan Miro
- Guernica, by Pablo Picasso
- Untitled 1968, by Mark Rothko
- Dog, by Alberto Giacometti
Join us after the performance for Q&A with the artists. (Please Note: Age recommendation for the show is 10 and older as some images may be too intense for young viewers.)
Presented by the Charles P. Ferro Foundation, this event is FREE and open to the public and will be held in the Alvin Sherman Library on NSU’s main campus, at 3301 College Ave. in Davie.
More FREE Ferro Fine Arts Series events are being added throughout the year, so stay tuned! For more information, please visit www.nova.edu/library/ferro or call 954-262-5477.
Media Contact:
Andra Liwag, NSU Office of Public Affairs
954-262-5309 (office), 954-873-8494 (cell), andrali@nova.edu