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Presenting Partners
Programs >Pasadena City College
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Pasadena City College 1570 E. Colorado Blvd. Pasadena, CA 91106 www.pasadena.edu/artgallery |
EVENT(S):
- Mantong and Protong:
Richard Shaver and Stanislav Szukalski - October 9 – November 14, 2009
Pasadena City College Art Gallery presents an exhibition that illuminates two extraordinary artists who created substantial bodies of work based on their singular conclusions about the lost origins of human culture: Stanislav Szukalski (1893- 1987) and Richard S. Shaver (1907-1975). The exhibition includes drawings, paintings, bronze sculpture, original manuscripts, rare publications, studio ephemera and recorded interviews with the late artists.
Stanislav Szukalski was a celebrated artist in his native Poland during the 1920s and '30s; much of his life's work destroyed during the Nazi occupation of Poland in 1939. Szukalski relocated to California, and spent the last decades of his life focused on developing his science of Zermatism, a comprehensive theory of human pre-history accompanied by an extensive body of original drawings, writing and sculpture.
Richard Shaver gained a modest degree of fame in the post-WWII era in the United States as the author of science fiction stories that he insisted were fundamentally true. He told of malevolent creatures that live underground, where they manipulate human society via fantastic mind-controlling machines. Shaver's audience waned by the early 1950s, but he continued his search for physical evidence of the glorious pre-historic peoples he believed were the true founders of culture on this planet. He became convinced that certain stones were actually ancient manufactured objects. He made paintings and photographs based on these "rock books," in order to reveal the true history of intelligent life on earth.
