CATE: Luis Gispert: Hyperreal, Thurs., Oct. 21 @ 6 p.m.

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Luis Gispert: Hyperreal Thursday, October 21, 6:00 p.m. Luis Gispert in person! Gene Siskel Film Center (162 N. State / 312.846.2600) Image: Still from "Réne" (Luis Gispert, 2008). Courtesy the artist. In his dramatic photographic tableaux, sculptures, video vignettes, and short films, Miami-New York-based artist and SAIC alumnus Luis Gispert (BFA '96) mashes up consumerist pop culture and narco-nouveau riche '80s aesthetics with Freudian nightmares and socio-economic provocation. Gispert, writes Edwin Stirman in Art in America , "aims for a new kind of baroque drama and satire by contrasting beauty and grotesquerie." This evening, Gispert will provide an overview of this work in all mediums, including his 2008 film, Smother, and the multi-channel portrait, Réne (2008). Set in 1980s Miami, Smother follows the adolescent Waylon, boombox in tow, on a kaleidoscopic and macabre journey out of his overbearing mother's clutches into a magical-realist nightmare world of his own making. Réne is an intimate, inventive study of family friend and Cuban émigré Réne as he goes about his daily routine in Miami Florida. Co-presented by Parlor Room , a visiting artist and lecture series created, run, budgeted and curated by graduate students in SAIC's Photography Department. Luis Gispert, 2001-08, USA, multiple formats, ca. 75 min (plus discussion). LUIS GISPERT (1972, Jersey City) creates art through a wide range of media, including photographs, film, sounds, an d sculptures, touching upon hip-hop and youth culture, as well as Cuban-American history. His work has been exhibited internationally, including in the 2002 Whitney Biennial, New York; the Brooklyn Museum of Art; the Studio Museum in Harlem; Art Pace, San Antonio, TX; the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami; the Contemporary Art Museum Houston; Palazzo Brocherasio in Turin; the Royal Academy in London; National Museum of Poznan, Poland; and Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt, Germany. His works are in the collections of the New Museum of Contemporary Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum , and the Whitney Museum of American Art. He received an MFA at Yale University in 2001 and a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1996.  From 1990-92, he attended Miami Dade College.  He is represented by Mary Boone Gallery in New York, Rhona Hoffman Gallery in Chicago, and Frederic Snitzer Gallery in Miami. CATE is organized by the School of the Art Institute's Department of Film, Video, New Media & Animation in collaboration with the Gene Siskel Film Center and the Video Data Bank . We have a blog! Visit us at www.saic.edu/cateblog. UPCOMING PROGRAMS   10/28 - Under the Cement, Sediment: Recent Video In and Around China (Curator Pablo de Ocampo in person!) 11/4 - Civil Status: Films by Alina Rudnitskaya (Alina Rudnitskaya in person!) 11/11 - Erie (Kevin Jerome Everson in person!) 11/18 - Reenactments (Curator Irina Botea in person!) 12/2 - The Unstable Object (Daniel Eisenberg in person!) LOCATION AND TICKETS Programs take place Thursdays at 6:00 p.m. at the Gene Siskel Film Center (164 N. State), unless otherwise noted. CATE is now FREE to SAIC students with a valid student ID. Tickets are $10 General public, $5 Film Center members, $7 students, and $4 SAIC faculty and staff and Art Institute of Chicago staff. Any person with a disability who would like to request an accommodation for this program should contact the Disability and Learning Resource Center at dlrc@saic.edu or 312.499.4278 as soon as possible to allow adequate time to make proper arrangements. About the School of the Art Institute of Chicago A leader in educating artists, designers, and scholars since 1866, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) offers nationally accredited undergraduate, graduate, and post-baccalaureate programs to nearly 3,200 students from across the globe. Located in the heart of Chicago, SAIC's educational philosophy is built upon a multidisciplinary approach to art and design, giving students unparalleled opportunities to develop their creative and critical abilities, while working with renowned faculty who include many of the leading practitioners in their fields. SAIC's resources include the Art Institute of Chicago and its new Modern Wing; numerous special collections and programming venues provide students with exceptional exhibitions, screenings, lectures, and performances. For more information, please visit www.saic.edu.

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