Event Title:

Organization:

  Visual Arts

  San Francisco

Start Date:

  11/12/2026

End Date:

  11/12/2026

Start Time:

  10:00 AM

End Time:

  5:30 PM

Event Info: 

  Opening reception Nov 12, 6-8pm, Exhibition Nov 12, 2026 - Jan 29, 2027, Tues-Fri 10:00am - 5:30pm, Saturday by appointment

GROUP EXHIBITION INCLUDING: PETER ALEXANDER | MARKUS BAENZIGER | PIERRE BURAGLIO | LAUREN DICIOCCIO | MICHAEL EASTMAN | JONATHON KEATS | FRANCOIS KOLLAR | TANJA RECTOR | JOHN REGISTER | WARD SCHUMAKER | LOUIS STETTNER | HIROSHI SUGIMOTO | ILOND TANSOVSKAYA | JACQUES VILLEGLE | MAX YAVNO

Modernism is pleased to present "Chronotope," a group exhibition featuring works by 15 artists across painting, photography, sculpture, printmaking and decollage.

Meaning literally "time-space," chronotope is a term introduced by Russian literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin [1895-1975] to describe the intrinsic connection between temporal and spatial relationships. Developed in the intellectual aftermath of Russian Modernism and the avant-garde, the concept was influenced by Einstein's theory of relativity and its understanding of time and space as inseparable dimensions. Bakhtin adapted this idea to literature, proposing that time becomes perceptible through space and that space, in turn, bears the evidence of time.

"Chronotope" extends this relationship to visual art, examining how artists capture time through images of places, objects and environments. Clocks, theaters, storefronts, streets and landscapes become symbols of both physical location and temporal experience.

Presenting works made between 1932 and 2025, "Chronotope" considers time and place not as independent subjects but as conditions that continually define one another. Rather than presenting time as an abstract progression, the exhibition locates it in specific streets, buildings, objects and landscapes-places through which time is accumulated, remembered and revisited.

ON VIEW NOVEMBER 12, 2026 - JANUARY 29, 2027

OPENING RECEPTION THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, FROM 6:00-8:00PM

https://modernisminc.com/exhibitions/CHRONOTOPEGROUP_EXHIBITION/

Location:

  MODERNISM INC.

Room:

Address:

  724 Ellis Street

Phone:

  415-541-0461

City:

  San Francisco

State/Province:

  CA