RTP-area local music and culture

[grady <grady AT ibiblio.org>]

Hopefully you saw the cover story in this week's Indy. If you didn't, 
you should go read it, but the thumbnail is that Georges Rousse uses 
paint & armatures & whatnot to create the illusion of abstract geometric 
shapes superimposed/floating within architectural spaces. If you're at 
all interested in Minimalism, then the concepts should be familiar to 
you (c.f. Dan Flavin, James Turrell), though Rousse uses reflected (off 
painted surfaces) rather than projected light, so Turrell would probably 
call him a pussy. No matter. Turrell would probably call most of us 
pussies, as he's spent most of the past 25 years carving out the inside 
of an extinct volcano out west, whereas we have not. But I digress.

I was on vacation all last week & thus missed the open house at Culture 
Crawl, but in any case, today & next Tuesday are the first days (and the 
last, apparently) when all 4 sites can be viewed.

Here's the project website: http://www.rousseprojectdurham.com

Here are some tiny photos of the finished works from the "correct" 
perspective:

http://www.rousseprojectdurham.com/liberty_Gallery/images/liberty014.jpg
http://www.rousseprojectdurham.com/bargain_Gallery/images/Bargain0013.jpg
http://www.rousseprojectdurham.com/baldwin_Gallery/images/baldwin11.jpg

Here's the article in the Indy: 
http://www.indyweek.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A37131

(there are also bigger photos of a couple of sites in the Indy article)

Here are the details of when/where it's open:

"Family and Education Day is Saturday, Sept. 23 from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. A 
final celebration is planned Tuesday, Sept. 26 from 5-8 p.m. at the 
Baldwin Building. All four sites will be open then, too.

The sites:

    * The Baldwin Building, 107 W. Main St.
    * Liberty Warehouse, 500 Foster St.
    * Bargain Furniture, 309 E. Chapel Hill St.
    * Chesterfield Building, 701 W. Main St. (use Main Street entrance 
near Duke Street) "

And here's a tagged map of the 4 locations I just made: 
http://www.tagzania.com/user/rossgrady/durham+rousse

It's a lovely day for walking around Downtown Durham.

xo

Ross