Matt Ducklo "Touch Tour Pictures"
Eleven Rivington
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The exhibition will feature eight large scale (50 x 40 in.) color photographs, all works 2007-08, taken during ‘Touch Tours’ for the blind at important museums such as The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, Tate Modern, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. This body of work investigates and questions the inherent problems or impossibilities for people who cannot see and experience works such as Rodin’s ‘Burghers of Calais’, Barnett Newman’s ‘Broken Obelisk’ or Dan Flavin’s ‘Monument for V. Tatlin’. By touching these works, the blind are able to have real engagement with a work of art and come away with a different experience than a sighted person’s. Touching art is not seeing art, but through ‘Touch Tours’ the blind are able to have access to something often taken for granted. Ducklo’s images are meditations on important works of art, as well as portraits of individuals as they are experiencing iconic sculptures through touch.
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Schedule
from November 14, 2008 to December 21, 2008
Opening Reception on 2008-11-14 from 18:00 to 20:00