Weekly Monster book launch with P.4 artist Pedro Lasch, Carin Kuoni, Rebecca Rau, and Bernie January followed by closing reception of Reflections on Time!

Saturday, February 24th
3:00pm-4:30pm

Gallier Historic House, 1132 Royal St., New Orleans
Free and Open to the Public

As a part of the Prospect.4 Closing Weekend celebrations, join us for the launch of Pedro Lasch’s new Prospect.4 Weekly Monster book at the 19th century landmark The Hermann-Grima + Gallier Historic Houses. The book signing and short conversation with Lasch, Carin Kuoni (Director/Chief Curator, Vera List Center for Art and Politics, NY), Bernie January (Youth Empowerment Project, YEP NOLA) and Rebecca Rau (Curator, M.S. Rau) will be followed by a closing reception of the artist’s Reflections on Time installation at M.S. Rau (630 Royal Street), also in the French Quarter.

Prospect. 4 Project
The Weekly Monster collapses different aspects of the story of Frankenstein with contemporary world affairs. This special Prospect.4 publication includes all weekly artworks the Lasch produced since November 8th, 2016, as well as documentation of the installation at the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans, and workshops with artists from Youth Empowerment Project. Additional texts include an introduction by Prospect.4 Artistic Director Trevor Schoonmaker and a critical essay by Nicholas Mirzoeff.

Reflections on Time (2017) is the newest installment of Lasch’s Black Mirror series and was created specifically for M.S. Rau, as part of Prospect.4. The installation juxtaposes eight 19th century clocks from M.S. Rau’s collection with images that emerge behind black mirrors, metaphorically collapsing time through the the viewer’s experience.

Pedro’s artwork is on view on the first-floor galleries at the Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans!