The Aldrich In Ridgefield Plans Special Summer Solstice Program

Ridgefield CT

07 June, 2021

6:33 PM

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RIDGEFIELD, CT — The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum will be presenting the second half of a two-part series by artist Ander Mikalson commissioned by the museum and dedicated to Frank Frank Stella's "Stars." The performance of "Scores for the Stars, Part II (2020-21)" will take place in the museum's Sculpture Garden on June 20 from 3 to 5 p.m. – on the summer solstice, when the sun is highest in the sky. Violinist Chié Yoshinaka and cellist Amy Selig will be performing selected phrases of music about winter, including songs by Simon & Garfunkel, The Mamas & The Papas, Fleet Foxes, Fleetwood Mac, Bob Dylan, and Vivaldi, among others, in the Museum's Sculpture Garden as a call-and-response between each other and between Frank Stella's "Stars." Mikalson said, "On the winter solstice we serenade the 'Stars' with songs about summer. On the summer solstice we serenade the 'Stars' with songs about winter. We play songs of the opposite season in a gesture of longing, of collapsing and layering time, of acknowledging cycles, of grappling with the impossibility of time across distance." "Part I" was a two-channel sound installation presented in the museum's Sculpture Garden from for two weeks last winter, beginning on the winter solstice, Dec. 21, 2020. Mikalson's "Scores for the Stars" was created in response to the exhibition "Frank Stella's Stars, A Survey." It was organized by the museum's director of education Namulen Bayarsaihan and senior curator Amy Smith-Stewart. "Frank Stella's Stars, A Survey" was on view inside the museum Sept. 20, 2020 to May 9, 2021; the outdoor work installed throughout the museum's grounds is on view through Sept. 6, 2021.