Matt Ducklo & Matthew Monteith "Mind’s Eye"
The Gallery at Hermès
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Established in April 2008, the Hermès Foundation was created to develop and nurture relationships with contemporary artists by exhibiting their work and supporting their newest creations. In this two-man show, Matt Ducklo and Matthew Monteith’s photographs explore the act of looking and our perceptions of art. How much do we really look at something and how do we arrive at creating meaning in our visually laden world? The exhibition presents 21 color photographs, most of which are being exhibited for the first time. Both bodies of work are meditative and ask the viewer to consider the act of looking while they are looking themselves. This visual dance wakes up our senses, making us all the more aware of both the limitations and possibilities of art.
Matt Ducklo began his body of work about Touch Tours six years ago and has photographed at some of the most esteemed art institutions from the Metropolitan Museum of Art to the Tate Modern. Many museums offer Touch Tours to the blind and visually impaired, which provide the opportunity to experience artwork through touch. The occipital lobe—the visual processing center in the human brain—is significantly stimulated when a blind person is engaged in touch. For them, to touch is not only to feel, but to see.
Matthew Monteith spent 2008 and 2009 living in Rome, a city filled with art and the people who come to see, examine and revel in it. Monteith is interested in the moment when the viewer, whether considering the Roman Forum or Bernini’s David, is “making it real in their own imagination, bringing it to life through a complex web of their own associations and prejudices.” Monteith explains, “My Caravaggio is not yours which makes it all the more beautiful.”
[Image: Matt Ducklo, "The Tiber Muse, 2nd-1st century B.C. Graeco-Roman, Minneapolis Institute of Arts" (2008)]
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from March 16, 2012 to April 28, 2012