Building 55 Art Dedication with Artist Julian Charrière

Please join us for the dedication of Everything Was Forever Until It Was No More, an installation of three interrelated artworks by Julian Charrière, now on permanent display at the Moghadam Building.

Featuring a keynote lecture by the artist, this program is in celebration of one of the newest additions to MIT’s public art collection. Julian Charrière works across multiple media creating elegant conceptual works of art. This is a site-specific work that will enhance the new atrium and exterior green space of Building 55, home to the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, the Environmental Solutions Initiative, and the MIT-Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute Joint Program.

Please register to attend — Hosted by the MIT List Visual Arts Center.

Lecture at 6pm in the Dixie Lee Bryant (1891) Lecture Hall — Room 54-100
Reception at 7pm in the Fred A. Middleton (1971) Atrium — Building 55

About the Artist

Julian Charrière’s work examines the representation and perception of the natural world in an age of planetary ecological change. He is known for his elegant conceptual works that investigate how humans inhabit the world, and how it in turn inhabits us. Charrière’s first major public art commission in the United States is installed at MIT’s new Tina and Hamid Moghadam Building (Building 55), designed by Cambridge-based Anmahian Winton Architects.

About MIT’s Percent-for-Art Program

The MIT List Visual Arts Center maintains one of the most active Percent-for-Art programs in the country.  Over the years MIT’s campus public art collection has continued to grow with new commissions by important and critically acclaimed contemporary artists.