"If There Ever Was" Exhibition
Cuchifritos
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Cuchifritos Gallery is proud to host, If There Ever Was: an exhibition of extinct and impossible smells. Like a cabinet of intangible curiosities, the seven scents re-created for this exhibition are drawn from disparate stories throughout history for which few, if any, tangible objects remain. At Cuchifritos you will be able to experience a range of phenomena around which contemporary culture is continually revolving from the acrid surface of the sun to the atomic blast at Hiroshima.
The French essayist of the sixteenth century, Michel de Montaige, once wrote that, of the senses, smell is best “used to fit us for contemplation.” It is with this understanding of scent as a means of interpretation and, as would follow, integral to the perception of abstraction that Robert Blackson, curator of the exhibition, began inviting some of the most renowned and trained “noses” in fragrance design to create the exhibition’s “olfactory images”.
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Schedule
from March 22, 2008 to April 26, 2008
Artist(s)
Koan-Jeff Baysa, Bertrand Duchaufour, Christoph Hornetz et al.