{"id":5680,"date":"2023-02-03T15:33:56","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T21:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/?page_id=5680"},"modified":"2023-06-07T08:20:23","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T13:20:23","slug":"build-on-this-gesture-john-saurer","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/build-on-this-gesture-john-saurer\/","title":{"rendered":"John Saurer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-modular-content-collection><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5681\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/build-on-this-gesture-john-saurer\/faculty-staff-installation-1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/files\/2023\/02\/Faculty-Staff-Installation-1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1695\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Faculty &amp;#038; Staff Installation-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/files\/2023\/02\/Faculty-Staff-Installation-1-1024x678.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5681\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/files\/2023\/02\/Faculty-Staff-Installation-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1695\" \/><\/p>\n<h6>John Saurer<\/h6>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In John Saurer\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All That Glitters Is Not Gold<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, boughs and twigs collected from the artist\u2019s yard are encrusted with gold glitter. The manicured bits of organic material radiate in an 8-foot circle. Artist Melanie Pankau notes Saurer&#8217;s approaching retirement from teaching and relocation to Montana as she writes about this work in her exhibition catalog essay. Pankau says the installation<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8220;<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">marks neither a departure nor an arrival, but the cathartic and vulnerable space of recalling memories, achievements, and losses. The smoke-and-mirrors nature of the title speaks to the appearance of a shimmering surface that covers the ungroundedness of transitions.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/files\/2023\/02\/BuildonthisGesture-catalog.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Read more about Saurer\u2019s work in Pankau\u2019s full essay on page 27 of the exhibition catalog.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/build-on-this-gesture-qr\/\">\u2190 Back to all artists<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- begin-migrated-from-panel-builder --><!-- end-migrated-from-panel-builder --><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Saurer In John Saurer\u2019s All That Glitters Is Not Gold, boughs and twigs collected from the artist\u2019s yard are encrusted with gold glitter. The manicured bits of organic material [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8158,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5680","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5680"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5853,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5680\/revisions\/5853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}