Date/Time
Date(s) - 09/20/2019 - 01/26/2020
12:00 am
Location
Carnegie Museum Of Art
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The museum’s Forum Gallery hosts the debut of a new commission by American artist Margaret Honda as part of this exhibition.
Born in San Diego in 1961, Margaret Honda’s work in both visual art and film deals specifically with materials and their intended and incidental purposes.
Honda has created a singular, enigmatic sculpture for this exhibit. Painstakingly rendered in lifelike detail including internal organs, and measuring nearly five feet long, the work is modeled after a frog-like form Honda observed in a Renaissance painting at the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana library in Milan. The painting, Bartolomeo “Bramantino” Suardi’s (1456-1530) “Madonna delle Torri” (1520), depicts the Madonna and Child enthroned; at their feet lies a slain man and a gargantuan frog with anthropomorphic features. At once material and philosophical, Honda’s sculpture prompts us to ponder our relationship to art and the world we make.
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