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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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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Flowers - flora In Contemporary Art and Culture
Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
On View February 12th - May 5th, 2025
Flowers have, throughout history, inspired artists, writers and creatives. FLOWERS – FLORA IN CONTEMPORARY ART & CULTURE seeks to reveal the myriad ways that flowers continue to be depicted by artists and their omnipresence within our contemporary culture. Occupying two floors and over nine major gallery spaces, this exhibition features large-scale installations, original art, photography, fashion, archival objects and graphic design exploring the ongoing influence of flowers on creativity and human expression.
Aside from studies of their inherent beauty and drama, flowers are also utilised as symbols, signifiers or metaphors for human emotions and impulses. Flora lies at the heart of myths and stories that inform our cultural outlook and language. Recognised as unparalleled objects of beauty in nature, artists continue to evoke the power and beauty of flora to convey a multitude of messages and meanings.