64 College St. in the List Art Center. The exhibition, titled Map of temper, Map of tenderness , includes five installation pieces created since 1993. Messager will be in residence at Brown during the week of Jan. 26, serving as the Distinguished Visiting Artist in the Department of Visual Art. An opening reception for the exhibition will follow. The gallery is located at 64 College St. in the List Art Center.
Admission is free.
The exhibition is a joint endeavor of the Bell Gallery and the Department of Visual Art. Messager's lecture is sponsored by the Margerie Ellman Cutler '57 Memorial Fund. Messager likes the idea of maps, adopting their formal elements while subverting their usefulness. The work included such fanciful creatures and sites as the path of good luck, grove of indiscretions, mirage of tears, branches of forgetfulness, tortoise of longevity and hill of despair. Comprised of yarn unraveled from 15 sweaters and colored pencil drawings of body organs, the installation stretches across three walls of the gallery.