Shadows of the Wanderer – Discussion Group, 15 October

Dear Friends,’
At a time when refugees and migrants are often before our eyes on the news, here is an opportunity to reflect on their experiences of rejection, solidarity, exploitation and welcome through the powerful art of Ana Maria Pacheco.

Bishop Otter Scholar

Saturday 15 October 2016, 11am – 12.30pm, Chichester Cathedral and the Bishop’s Palace

By popular demand, I am running a discussion group on the installation of Ana Maria Pacheco’s ‘Shadows of the Wanderer’ and ‘Head of John the Baptist’ in Chichester Cathedral.

The format will be similar to the discussion sessions about the Cathedral’s permanent art held earlier in the year: we will spend some time looking at the installation in situ, then adjourn for a discussion in the Bishop’s Palace.

Participants are encouraged to read Book II of the Aeneid, which inspired Pacheco’s ‘Shadows of the Wanderer’ before the session, though this is entirely optional. The Aeneid is available in numerous translations in hard copy and online.

The event is free, but places are limited. Please email naomi[dot]billingsley[at]chichester[dot]anglican[dot]org to book.

Further details about the installation and other associated events can be found on the Cathedral website.

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Shadows of the Wanderer in Chichester.

 

NAIB has drawn our attention to this exhibition in  Chichester Cathedral’s North Transept until Monday 14th November 2016.

Ana Maria Pacheco’s outstanding and powerful installation Shadows of the Wanderer is a multi-piece figurative sculpture in polychromed wood, in which ten over life-size darkly robed figures witness the struggle of a young man to carry an older man on his shoulders.  This powerful image resonates with contemporary and topical issues of exile, migration and the displacement of people struggling to flee persecution.   Ana was inspired by Virgil’s Aeneid, where the hero Aeneas carries his lame father Anchises on his back, leading a band of refugees from the ravaged ruins of Troy.

Ana Maria Pacheco (sculptor, painter and printmaker) was born in Brazil.  Following degrees in both art and music she went on to complete a postgraduate course in music and education at the Federal University of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro.  She then taught and lectured for several years at the Pontifical Catholic University of Goiás and the Federal University of Goiás before leaving for London in 1973 on a British Council Scholarship to the Slade School of Fine Art. Since then she has lived and worked in England

Her work is deeply rooted in Latin American and European social history and culture and deals with serious narratives and enduring themes (journeys, spirituality, mythology, unchecked power) that contribute to the many layers of interpretation and meaning in her work.    It has a strong humanist message and is capable of arousing extreme emotions.

Shadows of the Wanderer

The exhibition was officially opened on Friday 15th July 2016 by David Elliott, Curator and Writer.

This exhibition has been curated by Jacquiline Creswell (Salisbury Cathedral’s Visual Arts Advisor), Pratt Contemporary and Chichester Cathedral’s Exhibitions Committee.

Chichester Cathedral: Shadows of the wanderer.shtml 

 

 

Interruption: Forthcoming events at Chichester Cathedral

Ceiling, NW Tower,Chichester Cathedral, MMB.  

June

Tuesday 21st June: ‘Living with Invisibility’ lecture, 6.30pm, Chichester Cathedral.

Chichester Theological Society Lecture by Professor Graham Ward, Regius Professor of Divinity, University of Oxford.  In the Cathedral.  Free entry, all are welcome.

July

Tuesday 19th July: ‘The Representation of Suffering: the Work of Ana Maria Pacheco‘, 6.30pm, Chichester Cathedral.

A lecture by Christopher Wintle, related to the exhibition of Ana Maria Pacheco’s work, ‘Shadows of the Wanderer’ in Chichester Cathedral. 

August

Friday 19th August: ‘Much Ado About Nothing‘, 7.30pm, Chichester Cathedral.

A performance of Shakespeare’s comedy by the Lord Chamberlain’s Men. Bring a chair and a picnic. Tickets from £10. 

October

Thursday 6th October: Colin Wiggins In Conversation with Ana Maria Pacheco, 6.30pm, Chichester Cathedral.

An event related to the exhibition of Ana Maria Pacheco’s work, ‘Shadows of the Wanderer’ in Chichester Cathedral. Colin Wiggins is Special Projects Curator at the National Gallery, London. 

Exhibitions

Shadows of the Wanderer, Chichester Cathedral. 16th July – 14th November 2016.

The Cathedral will host Ana Maria Pacheco’s outstanding and powerful installation Shadows of the Wanderer.  This is a multi-piece figurative sculpture in polychromed wood, in which ten over life-size darkly robed figures witness the struggle of a young man to carry an older man on this shoulders.  The figures of the young man burdened by the old suggest a reference to the beginning of Virgil’s Aeneid, where the hero Aeneas carries his lame father Anchises out of the burning city of Troy.  It also evokes the plight of refugees fleeing places of destruction in our own day. Free entry. More information via the link above, including details of related talks. 

Southern Ceramic Group Exhibition, The Bishop’s Kitchen, Chichester. 30th July – 14th August.

10am – 5pm, daily. The Bishop’s Kitchen is adjacent to the Cathedral.