As usual I am woefully behind on my posts--three exhibitions behind to be exact. Last Fall I asked Lisa our intern if she wanted to curate a show from our collection and she jumped at the chance. It would be the first time we had a show at Cassilhaus drawn entirely from our collection and curated by someone other than Ellen and I. She put together a wonderful show called Total Reflective Abstraction. Her essay and check list are here:
Download Cassilhaus Artwork List TRA Short with Essay. It was fascinating to see these images that we have collected placed in a new context and new relationships . Lisa was almost obsessed with an incredible self portrait by André Kertész called Martinique that was shot on New Years Day in 1972 and made it the centerpiece of the exhibition. Reflective has multiple meanings indeed!
This piece by Frank Hunter below is a bit of an inside joke. My modernist architect wife is not a big fan of curtains so she says this piece fullfils all of our curtain needs in the house (it normally lives in our living room on the window sill). It is a platinum palladium print on Japanese tissue and we have framed it with glass on both sides of the print and it is amazing how the curtain glows.
I thought some of Lisa's pairings were inspired.
Thank you Lisa.
"Total Reflective Abstraction might be seen as an expression of our urge towards perfection itself, the secular corollary to a heaven in which thought and the body are one. As a visual modality it is infinite in its ability to project before us new perspectives, distortions, extensions. It is timeless, or perhaps it is time itself, because it only exists, as it exists, now, in the moment of looking.”
-Josiah McElheny
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