10 Apr 2008

Abelardo Morell|when in rome|Valentina Moncada Gallery

Abelardo Morell Camera Obscure Image of the Grand Canal Looking West Toward the Accademia Bridge in Palazzo Room Under Construction, 2007 Digital Chromogenic print mounted to diasec 30 x 40'

Abelardo Morell: when in rome http://www.valentinamoncada.com

On April 11, 2008 VALENTINA MONCADA Gallery is pleased to present the first solo exhibition in Rome of the Cuban artist Abelardo Morell. The photographer, already of worldwide renown, will be present in Rome following two previous exhibitions in Italy: in 2000 his first Italian solo exhibition was held in Limonaia of Villa Strozzi in Florence and in 2004 he participated in the group exhibition Arts and Architecture 1900-2000 in Palazzo Ducale in Genova. The exhibition consists of both color and black & white photographsTwo bodies of work will be present, Camera Obscura and Book of Books. Morell is looking at the magical process described by Gianbattista Della Porta during the first half of the sixteenth century, whereby the walls of the room reflect through a lens the view through the window. In Book of Books, the photographer creates the images of books - their volume, their form, surface, reproductions, maps, illustrations... Abelardo Morell (born in Havana, Cuba, 1948) lives and works Boston, where he works as a professor of Massachusetts College of Art. He entered in the art scene in New York in ’70, he stareted to show in all United States.

Selected solo exhibitions:

2008, Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, Tampa, Florida2006 Museu de Arte Moderna, Sao Paulo; Madrid, Spain2004 Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY

Selected group exhibitions:

2007 Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ2005 Chicago Cultural Art Center, Chicago, IL,2000  The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.

The exhibition received the support of American Academy in Rome.