The Sculpture Shoppe
I’m very pleased to have been included in the group show The Sculpture Shoppe, an exhibition of plaster reproductions of classical Greco-Roman art from the Cornell Cast Collection and responses to cast culture and classical art by contemporary artists and thinkers. The project was funded by the Cornell Council for the Arts and the Society for Classical Studies. You can hear curators David Nasca and Dr. Verity Platt discuss the project on All Things Equal at WHCU here https://whcuradio.com/podcasts/all-things-equal-5-24-22/
The images below include:
Two pieces from my series “Witness Marks” - squeezes of WW1 first person accounts displayed in dialogue with Cornell’s cast of the Potidaea epigram, an inscription commemorating Athenian war dead, together with squeezes from the Samian Heraion.
Cornell’s plaster cast of the Discobolus of Naukydes is in pretty rough shape, but that makes him the perfect partner to @jeffslomba’s “States of Bearing”, which reimagines another Greek athletic nude (Polyclitus’ Doryphoros) as a push-puppet.
Interaction between casts from the Cornell Collection and and printer onsite at the exhibition
Rhonda Weppler’s delicately cast resin mushrooms sprout from an abandoned head of Athena, rescued from Cornell’s damaged cast collection. Altering the marred and broken body of this once idealized form, they create a new hybrid of human and fungus, thriving in that which has deteriorated. Do they offer an alternative, mycorrhizal classicism?
