Aurora Pellizzi "Colombian Expedition Part 1. Pomology"
Eye Level BQE
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Since early November 2010, artist Aurora Pellizzi has been in Bogotá, Colombia. POMOLOGY is a demonstration of her process of translation, assimilation, appropriation, and adaptation of a new environment and culture. As a metaphor for this experience she mimics the tradition and history of botanical expeditions into the equatorial New World of the early Spanish explorers of the 17th and 18th centuries in their ‘discovery’, categorization, and interpretation of ‘exotic’ plants and fruit. As with the early explorers, unfamiliar objects are re-classified and re-arranged in an attempt to comprehend and appropriate them, to incorporate them into a meaningful aesthetic world and experience. For the purposes of this exhibition, the artist has narrowed her subject to that of tropical fruit. She dissects, reproduces, and re-interprets them, creating new images of things unfamiliar. The subjects are not discovered, but invented. In the process of interpretation and representation, the imagination creates its own image and meaning, expressed in the artist’s own language of assimilation.
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Schedule
from January 15, 2011 to February 06, 2011
Opening Reception on 2011-01-15 from 19:00 to 21:00