Abelardo Morell: In the Company of Monet and Constable
The Clark Institute, Williamstown, MA
On View November 23, 2024 - February 17, 2025
Opening Lecture November 23rd, 11am
This exhibition showcases thirteen recent large-scale photographs by Abelardo Morell. Taking inspiration from John Constable and Claude Monet and using his signature tent-camera technology, Morell photographed in the actual places where these leading nineteenth-century landscape painters made their iconic works. Combining picturesque vistas with ground-level natural details, Morell’s luscious color photographs reflect on our relation to art as well as nature through their complex fusion of the historical and contemporary, the transitory and the lasting, the pictorial and the photographic.
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Opening Lecture: Abelardo Morell in the Company of Monet and Constable
The Clark Museum, Williamstown, MA
Saturday November 23rd, 2024, 11am - 12pm
Artist Abelardo Morell introduces the exhibition Abelardo Morell: In the Company of Monet and Constable. Using his unique tent-camera technology, Morell captures the locations where Monet and Constable worked, blending historical and contemporary elements in stunning color photographs.
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Seeing Time in Colour
Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France
On View July 13th - November 18th, 2024
From July 13 to November 18, 2024, the Centre Pompidou-Metz is featuring photography in all its forms in the exhibition Seeing Time in Colour. It is curated by leading photography specialist Sam Stourdzé, who is currently director of the Villa Médicis in Rome and was formerly director of Les Rencontres d’Arles from 2014 to 2020 and the Musée de l’Élysée in Lausanne from 2010 to 2014. The exhibition brings together around 300 works and 50 photographers, offering a unique overview of the major technical challenges that have marked the history of the discipline.
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Unexpected Perspectives: The Lens of Abelardo Morell
Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA
On View November 16th - April 27th, 2025
Unexpected Perspectives features sixteen of Morell’s inventive photographs, drawn from the Museum’s holdings. In addition to his camera obscura works, this exhibition will also highlight a selection of photographs from Flowers for Lisa. This varied series of floral still lifes alludes to philosophy, art history, and mortality through both physical and digital manipulations.
Morell’s complex images subvert our expectations, uncovering new interest and beauty in familiar subjects. As he explains, “It’s encouraging to see strangeness come out of what we all know.”
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Photography's New Vision: Experiments in Seeing
The High Museum, Atlanta, GA
On View February 21st - July 13th, 2025
This exhibition, uniting more than 100 works from the High’s robust photography collection, will trace the impact of the New Vision movement from its origins in the 1920s to today. Photographs from that era by Ilse Bing, Alexander Rodchenko, Imogen Cunningham and Moholy-Nagy will be complemented by works by a multitude of photographs by modern and contemporary artists such as Barbara Kasten, Jerry Uelsmann, Hiroshi Sugimoto, and Abelardo Morell to demonstrate the long-standing impact of the movement on subsequent generations.
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Wonderland: Curious Nature
The New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
On View May 18th - October 27th, 2024
It’s unbelievable, it’s unfamiliar, it’s NYBG like never before! Head down the rabbit hole as Wonderland: Curious Nature transforms our 250 acres through the sights, settings, and scents of the classic story of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland—and step into a botanical experience that grows curiouser and curiouser as you set off on your immersive journey. Choose your own adventure with mind-bending horticultural displays fit for a queen, unusual and outsized art installations, fantastical tea parties, and all of the wonderfully weird beauty of Alice’s world of imagination, made real with thousands of technicolor flowers. Peer a little closer and you might even spot the Cheshire Cat’s wandering grin!