The NEC Art Gallery Presents David Giese: Recent Excavations from the Villa Bitricci
David Giese - Unrestored Fragment form the Palace of Earthly Delights 2002
The Gallery at New England College presents David Giese: Recent Excavations from the Villa Bitricci September 7 through October 9. The public is invited to a reception on Saturday, October 2 from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
The artifacts in this exhibition come from the imagination and studio of
artist David Giese. Villa Bitricci is an imaginary place in Italy named
for the Italian poet Dante’s mistress. The excavations, a wall of icons: 500 years of shrines celebrating events and family histories;
artifacts created of concrete, flotage, paint, and mixed-media by Giese
and belonging to the current style known as postmodernism. One key
strategy of postmodernism is appropriation, the conscious borrowing of
pre-existing images.
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