News: PCC Art Gallery To Present “Mantong And Protong” Exhibit

The Pasadena City College Art Gallery will be presenting the works of Stanislav Szukalski (1893-1987) and Richard S. Shaver (1907-1975) from Oct. 9 to Nov. 14 in an exhibit titled “Mantong and Protong.” The exhibit will include drawings, paintings, sculptures, original manuscripts, rare publications, studio ephemera, and recorded interviews with the late artists.

Szukalski, a celebrated artist from Poland, is best known for his detailed and elaborately symbolic sculptures that combined elements evocative of European avant-garde and Meso-American iconography. For the last decades of his life, Szukalski focused on Zermatism, a comprehensive theory of human pre-history that he developed through an extensive body of drawings, writings, and sculpture.

Richard Shaver, an acclaimed science fiction author, told stories of underground creatures that manipulated contemporary humans. “The Shaver Mystery” was a phenomenon in the science fiction world as thousands of readers stepped forward to affirm the truth of Shaver's claims.

Curated by Brian Tucker, director of the PCC Art Gallery, the “Mantong and Protong” exhibit is presented in conjunction with the Pasadena Festival of Art and Ideas (www.artideasfestival.org). The exhibit is free and open to the public. The PCC Art Gallery is open Monday through Thursday from noon to 8 p.m. and Friday and Saturday from noon to 4 p.m.

For more information contact Tucker at (626) 585-7238.

Release Date: 10/06/2009
Contact: Juan F. Gutierrez , Director, Public Relations
Phone: (626) 585-7315
Email: jfgutierrez@pasadena.edu