Fragments: Found Objects, Paintings and Butterflies
September 30 to November 28, 2004."Objet Trouvé" or "found object" was a concept which played an important role in French Surrealist theory, launched in Paris in 1924. The Surrealists maintained that an object of any kind, such as a shell found on a walk, could be a work of art. Their objective was to elude the viewer's conditioned response and provide access, through free association, to subconscious images and desires. Perhaps the most notorious "found objects" were Marcel Duchamp's "Readymades". These included Bottlerack (1914), Comb (1916) and Fountain (1917) which were, each, exactly that. The contemporary artist Julian Schnabel recently exhibited three massive boat tarps (found while on a trip to India) in the prominent New York gallery, Gagosian. In each case an object was found and presented as a work of art.
Fragments is an exhibition put together in a similar spirit. The remains of an old mantel clock (found in Irelandville, N. Y. in the basement of a former inn) is paired with the abstract paintings of Scandinavian artist Ulf Michaelson, as is a cellar door taken from an early 1800 farmhouse in East Moriches, N. Y. The abstract images of local artist Kumi Korf are paired with various mounted butterflies. Overall, this exhibition is intended to be evocative as well as playful. Perhaps your own "objet trouvé" is awaiting discovery just beyond the next bend....
CHEERS! Eat, Drink, and find objects...
Previous exhibits: Highland House Paintings and Artist Selects
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