Art Exhibit
Bryan-College Station residents tant because I usually show new
will have the rare opportunity to work in Dallas or Houston, she
view a special showing of original says.
artwork this weekend. She adds that she’s wanted to
The artist featured in the show, have a showing of new work in the
Margit Ilika, will be honored ata re- Bryan-College Station area so the
ception Dec. 15 from 3-6 p.m. at people in the community, especially
Thomas Johnson and Associates at students, would have a chance to
100 North Main in Bryan. Ilika’s see more of her work,
work will be on display from Dec. foe Arredondo, coordinator of
15-21. University Art Exhibits, says that in
Chances are Ilika’s name isn’t fa- recent years Ilika’s work has be-
miliar to you, but the poster she did
for the MSC Opera and Performing
Arts Society probably is. The OPAS
poster/painting is a stylized rendi
tion of a dancer in six different po
sitions.' There are two rows of piano
keys, the larger keys serving as a
base for one dancer and the smaller
keys as backround for the other
dancers.
Although the poster has won
Ilika fame locally, she hopes it will
bring recognition to Texas A&M,
too.
“Every time I go to Dallas and
mention to people that I’m from
College Station they look at me like
I’m some kind of hazing incident,”
Ilika says.
Her hope is that with statewide
distribution of the OPAS poster,
people outside of the local area will
realize there is something at Texas
A&M beside football and the Corps
of Cadets.
Ilika’s exhibit downtown will fea
ture a series of landscapes focused
on “newly discovered pyramids”
she saw in Mexico.
“The show downtown is impor-
come “glitzier.” He describes her
art as high-tech, -colorful, action-
packed and very appealing.
“If you had to call it (Ilika’s art)
anything, and she doesn’t like me to
call it anything, it would be neo
pop,” he says.
Ilika takes pictures from mag
azines or photographs, makes a col
lage and then paints over it. She’s a
mover and a doer, Arredondo says,
although her art is rarely found in
galleries.
Ilika says she’s not into the gal
lery scene, but prefers to show her
work in restaurants, calling them
“cafe society shows.”
Theresa Chiang, an advisor for
OPAS, agrees with Arredondo
about Ilika being a mover.
“Margit is energetic, enthusiastic,
but not pushy like a sales promo
ter,” Chiang says. “She’s in it (art)
for the financial reward, but she
doesn’t come across as a commer
cialized person.”
Art fans who can’t make it to the
Bryan show will have a chance to
view Ilika’s work in February, when
she’ll have a piece on display in the
medical school gallery.
Margit Ilika, artist
Movie Review
“WHITE NIGHTS”
When his plane crash-lands in
the Soviet Union, ballet dancer, Ni
kolai “Kolya” Rodchenko finds
himself back in the country he had
defected from 10 years earlier and
in the hands of a government that
considers him a criminal. The
dancer is played by Mikhail Barysh
nikov, a role which reflects his own
emigration to the West.
Because Rodchenko was injured
in the plane landing he was sepa
rated from his manager (Geraldine
Page). His X-rays are switched with
some more severe ones and taken to
the U.S. Embassy. The American
authorities are convinced by the So
viets that Rodchenko is suffering
serious head injuries and cannot be
moved from the hospital in the
high-security military base where
the plane landed.
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he’s alive and being held.
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impressive dance scenes it’s not
your average dance movie —there’s
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plains his life and why he defected
to Rodchenko. He taps out being a
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army and going to Vietnam. He
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government wants them to con
vince Rodchenko to stay in the So
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government can show the world
their defector who came back in to
the cold.
Rodchenko is restored to his for
mer way of life by the authorities.
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left exactly as it was when he left ex
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Ivanova whom he had abandoned
when he defected. In order to help
him, she has to risk her position in
the theater by telling the American
consulate Rodchenko is alive and
well, and arranging for him to be
picked up.
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from the beginning of the movie
which is set in Siberia, as well as
from the climactic escape. In the
Artie Circle, during the summer,
the sun shines 24 hours a day and
since Siberia is so close by, it also has
an extensive period of 24 hour sun-
light.
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but never gets bogged down in de
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