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Show Wednesday, May 9, 1990 THE SIGNPOST 5 Contemporary art in the Soviet Union is shipped to MARS (USAACIN) A Silver Spring, Md., artist is helping expand cultural relationships between the United States and the Soviet Union. Artist Jerry Carter, who works with glass and stone, opened his second show in Moscow April 16. Carter is exhibiting mosaics and sculptures at the Georgian Cultural Center, a governmental gallery. Earlier this year, Carter exhibited at the MARS Gallery, a private commercial facility. And preparations are under way for a third show. For three weeks starting May 10, Carter will exhibit at the House of Friendship, a governmental cultural center. Carter received the invitation to exhibit in Moscow through Soviet artist Alexander Kornoukhov. In 1984, the two worked together on a mosaic relief for the Park of Peace and Friendship Among Peoples in Ravenna, Italy. Carter also participated in the Global Forum Conference for Parliamentarian and Spiritual Leaders in Moscow in January. He attended a reception and dinner in the Kremlin and met Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. "You have to wait to be invited," Carter says. "It is very difficult to exhibit in the Soviet Union.' Molly Raymond of the U.S. Information Agency in Washington, D.C., confirms Carter's observation. Raymond is deputy coordinator of the president's U.S-Soviet exchange initiative. "Generally speaking, exchanges of art are done through institutions," Raymond says. "It is still very unusual for an individual artist to have a way of exhibiting." Carter has found Soviet galleries to be much like U.S. galleries. Soviet galleries tend to focus on traditional paintings, Carter says. The MARS gallery is unique in that it devotes 60 percent of its space to contemporary art, he says. "The MARS Gallery compares favorably with New York galleries," Carter says. "It has high ceilings, excellent rooms and halogen lights." However, the people who visit Soviet galleries view art differently than the people who visit U.S. galleries. "We're busy looking at the technical and physical aspects of it," Carter says. "With eastern art, people look at what it indicates and what it illustrates, and the materials of it are quite secondary." Likewise, Soviet and U.S. buying habits differ. The Soviet people acquire a work of art because they like it, not because they think it might be worth a lot of money someday, Carter says. Carter believes the theme of his works the obligation of humanity to preserve life helped bring about the Soviet invitation. In creating mosaics and sculptures, Carter tries to express his concerns about the future of the planet. For example, in a (See USSR page 6) bfl V I 3 x r a The Arts Utah Symphony concert Friday Coming Attractionsi... A preview of the arts on campus D Jr. High Orchestra Festival, Wed. 9 Area junior high schools will present concerts today beginning at 8 a.m. and ending at 5 p.m. in the Browning Center's Austad Auditorium. Admission is free. n Works on paper exhibit, thru Fri. 11 An exhibition ot contemporary prints, drawings and watercolors from the collection of the Utah Museum of Fine Arts is on display in the Collett Art Gallery. Gallery hours are Monday thru Thursday from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. and Friday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more info, call the Department of Visual Arts at 626-6762. QLDSSA spring concert, Fri. 11 - Sat. 12 A vocal and instrumental concert will be presented in the Browning Center's Austad Auditorium each night at 7:30. Suggested donations at the door are $10 for families, $3.50 adults, $3 for students 1 2 and older and $ 1 .50 for children 6- to 1 1 -years-old. EDWARD HEATH The Utah Symphony will host a gala evening in Salt Lake's Symphony Hall as part of its 50th anniversary celebration this Friday, May 11. The evening will include a concert featuring Joseph Silverstein as conductor and violin soloist, and The Right Honorable Edward Heath, former prime minister of Great Britain, DRUG AND ALCOHOL HELP NET Begin to Live a Healthy Lifestyle Make informed decisions about Drug Abuse Become resistant to persuasion KNOW WHERE TO GET THE HELP YOU NEED! Our services are confidential and free to all Weber State College students, faculty and staff... call 626 6 973 lfs yur llfe-don ,fpuf if off! r-zi located in Room 359 of the Union Building as guest conductor. The program for the concert will include Dvorak's "Carnival Overture," Vaughan Williams' "The Lark Ascending,'' Brahms' "Schicksalslied" and Tchaikovsky's "Symphony No. 4 in F minor." The program will also include a fanfare performed by four Trumpeters of the Life Guards, a group from England with a tradition of service to the British Crown dating from 1659. Tickets for the concert are $25, $40 and $50, and are available at the Utah Symphony Box Office. For more information or to order by phone, call the box office at 533-NOTE. Fluent the i world's finest bars. ;T-i. ... - .w.i For only $5 you can spend a great evening hanging out at Salt Lake's most famous hall. Come to the Utah Symphony as they jam live the greatest hits in history. " Tickets are available at the Utah Symphony Box Office one week prior to each concert. Present your student I.D. for both ticket purchase and concert admission. Student season tickets are half price. Student tickets a mere five dollars. Call 533-6407. May 18 & 19 "All Request Program" MOZART Erne kleine Nachmmsik BARBER Adagio for Strings VIVALDI The Four Seasons Joseph Silverstein, Conductor and Violin Soloist May 25 & 26 Merrill Lynch Entertainment Series Marvin Hamlisch, Special Guest Artist KSL 3TV TJta h Symphony ICU" KSM. If XX Illi T X IM-OKMAl ION K.UHO Joseph Sihvrstcin. Music Dmnor |