Sketching Time and Space

  ( Boston, 2011)

IN THE GALLERIES: Hans Guggenheim: Sketching in Time and Space

Hans Guggenheim (b. in Germany 1924, lives in Boston) is a rarity in today's world, a compassionate Renaissance man whose accomplishments in art, academia, and service span the globe. This exhibition features a selection of his sketchbooks from his world travels.

Guggenheim was educated in England and lived in Guatemala during World War II. There he began painting and first exhibited his work publicly in 1945. Influenced by his parents' interest in art, he studied art history in New York. In 1956, he traveled the world for LIFEmagazine, drawing and reporting on artists and exhibitions.

Guggenheim has been Professor of Anthropology at MIT and a Visiting Scholar at Harvard's Center for International Affairs. He has worked in Mali to build water-granaries and small dams during the drought and as an artist and supporter of traditional art and craft around the world.

Based on years of experience in remote corners of the world, he founded Projectguggenheim in 1997 to provide high quality training in the traditional arts and contemporary skills for students. Their schools and programs (in places like Tibet, Mali, Guatemala and northern Canada among the Inuit) support traditional arts and encourage innovation-understanding that for traditions to survive, they must respond creatively to new cultural and economic challenges.

Exhibition Date: 2/14/2011 to 3/11/2011

Presented by:  Massachusetts College of Art and Design at Presidents Gallery 11th Floor, Tower Building

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