Ars Magna
The Magnet Lab's atrium serves as the main entrance for researchers and others visiting the lab, but four times a year, it transforms into Ars Magna, an art gallery and destination for the Council on Culture and Arts' (COCA) First Friday gallery hop.
The goal of Ars Magna ("Great Art" in Latin) is to demystify science and make it more accessible to a different audience. The shows frequently features artists affiliated with Florida State University or the scientific community, and attracts people who wouldn't ordinarily think to visit the Mag Lab. While here, visitors take in the lab's permanent art installation, Magnetic Moment, and have an opportunity to see the lab's big magnets.
All shows are on the first Friday of the scheduled month and are held from 7 to 9 p.m. There is no admission charge.
Now Showing: John Mann
Photograph from the series "Folded in Place," by Tallahassee artist John Mann.
The photographs in the series "Folded in Place," by Florida State University Assistant Professor of Art John Mann, are informed by the varied ways that photography, mapping, drawing and sculpture have each tried to describe the landscape. By incorporating each of these methods, "Folded in Place" highlights the abstraction of the landscape traditionally offered by these means, while creating a tangible photographic "place" in each image that is occupied by a mapped construction. The images therefore provide precise photographic and mapped information at the same time as they offer an abstraction of the landscape itself. The viewer is shown a landscape that is simultaneously understood and unknown, a landscape in which the map obtains a new geography of its own.
Upcoming Shows
- Opening Dec. 4: Françoise Baudoin d'Ajoux
Recent Shows
- August - September 2009: Mark Dickson
- June - July 2009: Mason Rankin
Directions to the Lab
For more information contact Amy Mast at winters@magnet.fsu.edu or (850) 644-1933.
