If you are in San Francisco during May 10 to June 28 check out Robert Minervini's exhibition After Glow: As The Wick...
If you are in San Francisco during May 10 to June 28 check out Robert Minervini's exhibition After Glow: As The Wick Burns at the Electric Works Gallery.
This group of fifteen new paintings and drawings of floral still lifes are both literal and metaphorical quotations from traditional European vanitas paintings that have been recontextualized in contemporary environments. The flora and fauna depicted in these works are currently listed as endangered wildlife in California. These present day memento mori directly reference the traditional form and function of European vanitas paintings—which acted as symbolic reminders of the inevitability of death—by depicting local wildlife that is in the process of extinction.
http://robertminervini.com/section/356240_After_Glow_As_The_Wick_Burns.html
This group of fifteen new paintings and drawings of floral still lifes are both literal and metaphorical quotations from traditional European vanitas paintings that have been recontextualized in contemporary environments. The flora and fauna depicted in these works are currently listed as endangered wildlife in California. These present day memento mori directly reference the traditional form and function of European vanitas paintings—which acted as symbolic reminders of the inevitability of death—by depicting local wildlife that is in the process of extinction.
http://robertminervini.com/section/356240_After_Glow_As_The_Wick_Burns.html
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