Vision Revealed: Selections from the work of Abelardo Morell
MIAMI, Fla. (January 6, 2004) – Florida International University’s
Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum (formerly The Art Museum)
presents Cuban-American photographer Abelardo Morell’s
first retrospective piece in Miami Vision Revealed: Selections
from
the Work of Abelardo Morell opening Friday, January 16th 2004.
Morell will be speaking on his life
and work on the opening day as part of the XXIII Steven and Dorothea
Green Critics’ Lecture
Series at 8 p.m. at the Green Library in room 100 at FIU-University
Park,11200 SW 8th St.
“The Frost Art Museum at FIU
is honored to present Morell’s
first retrospective piece in Miami. Also, we are proud to host
Morell, a Cintas Fellow, since the Frost Art Museum houses the
Oscar B. Cintas Fellows collection,” said Dahlia Morgan,
director of the Frost Art Museum at FIU.
Through the lens of his camera, Morell
reveals the dangerous and beautiful “magic realism” of
everyday life. Using all the dramatic capabilities of a voluptuous
black and white
toned palette, Morell fuses unexpected fragments of outdoor
elements with household objects to create images that challenge
our adult
perceptions of reality. Within the confines of traditional photography,
he creates pictures that are both familiar and surreal by distorting
scale, cropping objects and juxtaposing images.
Morell’s photographs have been
exhibited and collected by major museums around the world including
the Museum of Modern
Art, the Whitney, the Metropolitan and The Art Institute of
Chicago. Morell is the recipient of both a Cintas and Guggenheim
Fellowship.
The exhibit will run through March
14, 2004. All Frost Art Museum events are free and open to the
public. Museum hours are 10
a.m. to 5 p.m. Mon., Tues., Thurs., and Fri., 10 a.m. to 9
p.m. on
Wed., and noon to 4 p.m. on Sat. and Sun.
For more information, please visit
www.fiu.edu/~museum/media_kit.html.
or contact Nicole Kaufman at 305-348-3689.
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