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Dave Douglas's Dada People at Painted Bride Art Center
Courtesy of Mark Christman | Posted on January 26, 2017
Where
Painted Bride Art Center
5212 Market St.
Philadelphia, PA
Map
215-925-9914
When
Fri, April 14, 2017
8:00 pm
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Musicians
About
Ars Nova Workshop and the Painted Bride Art Center are pleased to present trumpet great Dave Douglas with his new quartet Dada People, a collaboration with French pianist Frank Woeste dedicated to Dada artist Man Ray.
Born Emmanuel Radnitzky in Philadelphia to Russian Jewish immigrants, Man Ray moved to Paris in 1920, changing his name and effectively erasing his heritage as anti-Semitism was spreading across Europe. His artwork spanned disciplines, including painting, photography and sculpture, and including “readymades” in the style of Dada founding father Marcel Duchamp – ordinary objects repurposed as works of art. In his liner notes for Dada People, Douglas calls Man Ray “the ultimate impostor.” Perhaps no other single artist so embodies Dada’s slippery juxtapositions: both French and American, commercial and avant-garde, Jewish by birth and mysterious by design, Man Ray epitomized the conflicting personae and attitudes that have come to define so much of the modern art world of the last century. Bridging the Atlantic, Douglas and Woeste explore those concepts through a 21st-century lens with new music realized by a stellar quartet....