Photography
Abelardo Morell, "Women from Three Paintings, Gardner Museum," 1998
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Item Description
Abelardo Morell (American, b. Cuba, 1948)
Women from Three Paintings, Gardner Museum, 1998
Gelatin silver print
Framed: 18 x 22 inches
Edition: 5/30
Signed and dated on back
Abelardo Morell is one of the most esteemed photographers working today. In 1998, he was an artist-in-residence at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. “One of the pleasures of working in museums the way I do lies in how I can become a sort of ad hoc curator,” said Morell. “I get to organize installations of art to suggest a sisterhood among pieces that is based on my own visual hunger. I like to play in museums.”
Morell's interest in "the choreography of art objects to fashion unexpected conversations” is vividly seen here. This photograph conflates three 16th-century Dutch portraits into a single, haunting depiction of female royalty and power. This photograph is published in the 1998 book Face to Face: Photographs by Abelardo Morell, with essays by Charles Simic and Jennifer Gross.
The Art Institute of Chicago and J. Paul Getty Museum are jointly organizing a retrospective of Morell’s work, which will be on view in the summer of 2013.
About The Artist
Abelardo Morell was born in Havana, Cuba in 1948, and immigrated with his parents to the United States in 1962. He received his B.A. from Bowdoin College in 1977 and his M.F.A. from Yale University in 1981; Bowdoin presented him with an Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts in 1997.
Morell has been the recipient of a number of awards, including: a Cintas grant (1992), a Guggenheim Fellowship (1994), a Rappaport Prize (2006), an Alturas Foundation grant (2009) and most recently in 2011, the International Center of Photography Infinity Award in Art.
His work has been collected and shown extensively at institutions in both the U.S. and abroad. Among these are The Museum of Modern Art; The Whitney Museum of American Art; and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Art Institute of Chicago; The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Museum of Fine Art, Boston; Museum of Fine Art, Houston; and The Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
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