The museum scale art project consists of fourteen paintings - Seven Arts and Seven
Virtues - each measuring 106" by 20", twelve poetry panels, each 22"x20", an Artist's Book - Stefan Umærus' diary and poetry from Beijing, 1989 - 1" x 8", and a video-loop.

First shown at the New York Academy of Sciences in 1992, “2388: Connecting Vocabularies” has also been shown at the Brauer Museum of Art, Indiana, USA, and at the Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic.

Based on Stefan Umærus' personal experience as a language student in Beijing 1988/89, “2388: Connecting Vocabularies” is an art project by Chely Depablos and Stefan Umærus. More >>>

Installation and diary in digital format about hurricane Georges and the Dominican Republic. Created during an Artist-In-Residency at Escuela de Diseño, Altos de Chavón, La Romana in the fall of 1998.

The installation consists of three egg-tempera paintings on panel, with details in silver leaf, each 27"x21", and twelve small panels, each 7"x 7" forming a circle.

A digital print portfolio with twenty poems and twenty digital images measuring 23"x17" concludes “First Aid Kit” .

First exhibited at La Galería, Altos de Chavón, in 1989, “Primeros Auxilios”, was shown at the Casa Simón Bolívar in La Habana in the exhibition “Transparencias” in the year 2000, and at the Museo de Arte Moderno in Santo Domingo the same year.

The exhibitions in Santo Domingo and in La Habana were sponsored by the International Program, Moderna Muséet, Stockholm, Sweden. More >>>

The four paintings in the series,"The Anatomic Theatre/The World", were originally created, on invitation from an NGO, as a proposal for a Global Pavilion for the 50th Anniversary of the United Nations, in New York.

One of the paintings was part of the exhibition “A Tribute to Ingmar Bergman”, organized by the American Scandinavian Society, the same year: 1995.

One of the paintings in the series; “The Anatomic Theatre/The World”, is in the permanent collection of the Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic, and was part of the exhibition "Obras de otras Tierras" at the museum in 2005.

Geraldina Whaley-Ewers presents and represents the work of Stefan Umærus in Atlanta, Georgia, and the Besharat Gallery in Atlanta shows the paintings as part of the exhibition program. Three paintings from the series "The Anatomic Theatre/The World" are currently shown at the Peters Street Projects in Atlanta. More >>>

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We are looking for future exhibition venues for:

"Anatomy of the World"
which includes the three art projects
"2388: Connecting Vocabularies" , "First Aid Kit" , "The Anatomic Theatre/ the World"

To read more about the art projects, download the PDF documents above.

Please contact:
Chely Depablos: chely@chelydepablos.com [chely@chelydepablos.com]
Stefan Umaerus: stefan@stefanumaerus.com [stefan@stefanumaerus.com]

Stefan Umaerus - The Anatomic Theatre/ The World

The exhibition history of the series of four paintings "The Anatomic Theatre/ The World". Three of the paintings are currently, 2010, shown as part of the ongoing exhibition program at the Besharat Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, The video is on the web at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cq6he7bWClI

Stefan Umaerus - Early Works, 1980 - 1987

Early Works, 1980 - 1987 by Stefan Umaerus. Exhibitions at Galleri Engström, Stockholm, Norrköpings Konstmuseum. Eskilstuna Konstmuseum, Sandvikens Konsthall, Västeras Konstmuseum, and Civilian Warfare, New York. On the web at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRcxffKMi_8

Stefan Umaerus - Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo

Stefan Umaerus one-man exhibition "Anatomía del Mundo, Documentos Para La Vida Publica 2000. Obras escogidas de Stefan Umaerus". Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo, The Dominican Republic. Produced by the Audiovisual department at the MAM. Language: Spanish. On the web at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3d9hXDW75no

Stefan Umaerus - Art Students' League of New York

Panel discussion, Art Students' League of New York, Dec 17, 1997 Forum. "National and International". Sound bites; Stefan Umaerus. On the web at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VH8uKrWjp4

Stefan Umaerus - Tiananmen Square Massacre, FocusTalk

The 30 min conversation with Xiaoxu Lin was broadcast by NTDTV via satellite over Asia on occasion of the 2006 anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. On the web at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEnKuwH7ahQ

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