ABELARDO MORELL

Monographs

Publications including Morell's Work

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Photographs by Abelardo Morell
Essays by Charles Simic and Jennifer Gross

Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum
1998

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Abelardo Morell: Face to Face

"The astonishing aspect of Morell's photographs is their ability to give this old world a new look. What is this he's got here, we continually ask? Morell has found the way to domesticate the fantastic. In this photograph, it seems perfectly natural to find the reflection of sea waves on the ceiling of an attic. How delightful it must be to stretch in a bed with the upside-down image of the Empire State Building in midtown Manhattan hovering over one's head! Morell's is a magic realist show. Nothing is quite what it appears to be. Mirage and reality perform side by side, providing new aesthetic experience for the viewer."

Charles Simic