Monday, December 2, 4 - 5 pm.
Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery, Cohen Memorial Hall, 1220 21st Avenue South, Nashville, TN 37203
**Meet at the entrance by 3:50 pm.
The Nashville Jung Circle will take a “field trip” to the Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery to have a private, curator-led tour of this exhibit that examines artworks and artifacts from different eras, cultures, and disciplines, all through the lens of the archetypal themes that they share. We will have a thirty minute tour and then time for questions and discussion. Please meet in the entrance to the gallery by 3:50. Afterwards, those interested may walk to a nearby place for coffee and more discussion.
This gallery presentation takes as its point of departure Carl Jung’s 1912 publication Symbols of Transformation, which frames the unconscious as a collective psyche, and the instinctive force driving visions to reappear time and again throughout human history—in dreams, religions, folklore and art from across the world.
Organized into four categories—Celestial Events, Major Arcana, Serpents & Slayers, and Sacred Geometries—Symbols & Archetypes explores artworks made over the span of two thousand years, to include: Chinese currency from the Zhou Dynasty (1046–256 BCE); fifth-century illuminated manuscripts; alchemical texts from sixteenth-century Germany; early European tarot cards, proto-surrealist illustration by nineteenth-century French caricaturist J.J. Grandeville; collaged self-portraits by avant-garde French photographer Claude Cahun; twentieth-century lithographs by Marc Chagall and Salvador Dalí; and TV news archives from the Apollo moon landing. Alongside historical works are those by twenty-first century artists whose imagery delves into the collective unconscious: Martin Puryear (b. 1941, USA), Rubens Ghenov (b. 1975, Brazil), Sharona Eliassaf (b. 1980, Israel), and Nashville-based David Onri Anderson (b. 1993, USA) among them.
If you are not able to attend on December 2nd, you may visit the gallery at another time:
THE FINE ARTS GALLERY is open daily.
11 a.m.–4 p.m. Monday–Friday
1–5 p.m. Saturday & Sunday
Location and Parking
Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery
Cohen Memorial Hall
1220 21st Avenue South
Nashville, Tennessee 37203
615-322-0605 Gallery
615-343-1702 Office
vanderbilt.edu/gallery
Very limited metered and accessible parking is available in front of the building by the 21st Avenue entrance. Additional metered parking is available on 18th Avenue South, on the eastern edge of Peabody Campus. Paid parking lots are nearby.
For more information, go to https://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/gallery/exhibitions/2019/symbols-and-archetypes.php