Make your way to the opening of Slavs and Tatars art collective’s, Mirror for Princes on view at the Blaffer Art Museum Friday, January 15 through Saturday, March 19 2016.
The renowned Slavs and Tatars art collective will be concluding their five city-spanning exhibition, Mirrors for Princes at Houston’s own Blaffer.
Formed in 2006, the collective describes itself as “a faction of polemics and intimacies devoted to an area east of the former Berlin Wall and west of the Great Wall of China” known as Eurasia.
The installation and sculpture-based exhibition concludes it’s international tour at the University of Houston-located museum, which will serve as the exclusive North American venue.
Mirrors for Princes takes its title from the medieval genre of advice literature in which rulers were offered advice on how to govern properly — through this concept the sculptures are meant to reflect the heart and art of politics.
Using the genre as a jumping off point, the work featured at Blaffer translates literary allegories and colloquial objects, such as religious furniture or cosmetic tools, into works that further Slavs and Tatars’ analysis of speech and jurisdiction.
Slavs and Tatars’ Mirror for Princes Opening at Blaffer
- Dates: Friday, January 15 to Saturday, March 19, 2016
- Times: 7pm to 9pm opening night; 10am to 5pm Tuesday to Saturday
- Location: Blaffer Art Museum, University of Houston, 4173 Elgin St, Houston, TX 77004
- Parking: Free lot and street parking is available in the surrounding area
- Admission: Free