Requiem for September 11th.  Large-scale public art memorial project by Tatana Kellner. On view at the Market Arcade Building (617 Main Street) presented by CEPA Gallery through November 1.

To mark the 10th anniversary of 9/11, CEPA Gallery is proud to present Requiem for September 11th.  This important public art memorial project was commissioned by CEPA Gallery in 2002 to mark the attack’s first anniversary.  Conceived and produced by New York artist Tatana Kellner, this site-specific public art installation will be displayed as a remembrance to the victims of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.  This hauntingly beautiful memorial has been culled from the New York Times, Portraits of Grief and is presented as 46 flowing white sheer fabric banners, each 16′ long and 4′ wide.  The installed work effectively fills the entire three story open atrium of the Market Arcade Building. Requiem for September 11th is truly unique in its process and presentation.  Documenting with image and text each of the victims of the World Trade Center, this commemorative piece is indicative of the artist’s process of imbedding meaning through the very construction of her artworks.  Silkscreen printing each of the images and text by hand, Ms. Kellner has created a profound remembrance for those lost on September 11, 2001.  The images appear cauterized, ghost like and ephemeral, creating a solemn and dignified homage.  Installed, the banners, containing nearly 3,000 images, will be accessible from all three levels of the building.  The site itself will add to the work’s splendor as it receives remarkable diffused daylight through its glass roof and is accessible seven days a week.
   
Tatana Kellner, co-founder of Women’s Studio Workshop in Rosendale, New York immigrated to the United States from the Czech Republic in 1969.  The majority of Ms. Kellner’s large format, photo-based works and artist books are created around issues of remembrance and loss.  A child of Holocaust survivors who has traveled extensively throughout Europe and the Middle East, Tatana Kellner is sensitive to and intimately familiar with loss through historic tragedies.  She received her MFA from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 1974 and has been actively producing critically acclaimed works for the past 38 years.