WHEN
Opening Night Preview Party: Thursday, March 15, 2018
Friday, March 16 – 10 am – 6 pm
Saturday, March 17 – 10 am – 6 pm
Sunday, March 18 – 11 am – 5 pm
WHERE
Charleston Gaillard Center
95 Calhoun Street
Charleston SC 29401
http://www.antiquescouncil.com
Beatriz Esguerra Art has the pleasure of inviting you to the opening of L´Objet Trouvé, a solo show of works by Colombian artist Elsa Zambrano. Zambrano´s artistic process has been highly influenced by the writings of André Malraux. Within his notion of the imaginary museum, Malraux wrote that museums, in their act of containing objects, implicitly changed the essence of said pieces. Once exhibited within the museum space, a shift incurs between the viewer and the object, resulting in a novel dialogue between the two.
The same occurs in Elsa Zambrano´s assemblages. She highlights the works of prominent artists from within the art historical canon using an array of found objects, and as a result, the viewer comes to appreciate a unique encounter between said pieces thanks to their placement within her boxes. Each of her assemblages becomes, in effect, a museum in itself.
This exhibition will also feature the series Ex Votos, a compilation of her latest work that revolves around the Divine Child, a 20th century religious wooden statue of the child Jesus, and one of Colombia’s most important religious icons. In these pieces, Zambrano places a miniature replica of the Divine Child with postcards of important works of art, inserting the writings of Malraux in the background of each assemblage.
The tradition of ex votos, identified as early as the Neolithic age, has been appropriated by different religions and cultures throughout history. Ex votos, or votive offerings, were objects displayed or deposited primarily for religious purposes in order to thank or gain favor from deities or supernatural forces. With this same sense of appropriation, Zambrano references the spiritual sensation of respect, admiration and emotion that she herself feels when encountering works of art in a museum.
This show will exhibit 28 assemblages from her series The Imaginary Museum, and 56 small boxes of collage and assemblage from her most recent series Ex Votos.
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Desert X Exhibition of Art
From Feb 25 through April 30, 2017, the Coachella Valley and its desert landscape will become the canvas for a curated exhibition of site-specific work by established and emerging artists, whose projects will amplify and articulate global and local issues that may range from climate change to starry skies, from Tribal culture and immigration to tourism, gaming, and golf. The art works, in various indoor and outdoor locations, will be available free and will offer visitors a way to see the Valley and reflect on serious and playful issues through the lens of the participating artists’ creativity and work. Desert X is produced by Desert Biennial, a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) charitable organization founded in 2015 to bring the finest international artists to the Coachella Valley to create art, engage viewers, and focus attention on the Valley’s environment — its natural wonders as well as socio-political-economic issues that make it vibrant, curious, and exciting.
Vision
Desert X, an international, contemporary art exhibition, will focus attention on and create conversation about environmental, social, and cultural conditions of the 21st century as reflected in the greater Palm Springs area. The Coachella Valley stretches east and south from Palm Springs to the Salton Sea. It is a desert environment, surrounded by some of the highest peaks in the United States. Long a sacred site and home to the Native American tribe of Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians, it has become known for tourism, camping, hiking and golf, its rich modern architectural history, as well as for entertainers and politicians who have enjoyed this vibrant area.
Learn More
A Desert Biennial Alongside Coachella is in the Works-The New York Times
Desert X Marks its Spot for Coachella 2017 Art Exhibition-Los Angeles Times
New York (February 20, 2018) – For two decades, this annual event has been the most comprehensive exhibition and sale of important nineteenth-century American landscapes. Opening March 9 at Questroyal Fine Art and running through April 7, The Last New World: Important Hudson River School Paintings features over one hundred twenty-five paintings by the nation’s most revered artists whose works are included in virtually every major American museum. Paintings by leaders of the period will be on view, including examples by Albert Bierstadt, Alfred Thompson Bricher, Thomas Cole, Jasper Francis Cropsey, Asher B. Durand, Sanford Robinson Gifford, John Frederick Kensett, Jervis McEntee, William Trost Richards, Francis Augustus Silva, and Worthington Whittredge.
Gallery owner Louis Salerno, a proponent of American paintings as undervalued assets against the dizzying contemporary market, finds Hudson River School artwork in particular to have enduring importance for Americans. In Mr. Salerno’s words, “The sense of awe we experience as we view the sublime and the beautiful rouses a dormant patriotism. At a moment when we are experiencing a widening ideological divide, we need this genuine American art that encourages an affection for the homeland, a sentiment critical to the well-being of a union that Lincoln described as ‘the last best hope of earth.’”
To request a copy of the exhibition catalogue, The Last New World: Important Hudson River School Paintings, call 212-744-3586 or visit our website at www.questroyalfineart.com/publications.
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