HYDE PARK — Artist Sabina Ott will explain the two-story polystyrene mountain she’s built in the Hyde Park Art Center at a Sunday artists talk.
Filmmaker Chris Kraus will lead a discussion with Ott about her new exhibit, “Who Cares for the Sky?” at 2 p.m. Sunday at the art center, 5020 S. Cornell Ave.
The exhibit, which runs through May 1, is both physically complicated, with other artists’ work embedded in the polystyrene caves, and also conceptually complex.
The 8,000-cubic-foot plywood and polystyrene mountain with its fake plants is inspired by Gerturde Stein’s only children’s book, “The World is Round,” and is meant to play with ideas about proverbial mountains.
“I chose to focus my work on Stein’s tale in the hopes that the narrative’s innocence, persistence, fortitude and discovery will come through in the installation and connect with the Art Center’s multi-generational audience,” Ott said in a statement announcing the opening.
The talk is free and open to the public.
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