- NEW YORK (USA)
Exhibition: Van Gogh’s Cypresses
Van Gogh’s Cypresses is the first exhibition to focus on the trees—among the most famous in the history of art—immortalized in signature images by Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890). Such iconic pictures as Wheat Field with Cypresses and The Starry Night take their place as the centerpiece in a presentation that affords an unprecedented perspective on a motif virtually synonymous with the Dutch artist’s fiercely original power of expression. Some 40 works illuminate the extent of his fascination with the region’s distinctive flamelike evergreens as they successively sparked, fueled, and stoked his imagination over the course of two years in the South of France: from his initial sightings of the “tall and dark” trees in Arles to realizing their full, evocative potential (“as I see them”) at the asylum in Saint-Rémy. This tightly conceived thematic exhibition offers an extraordinary opportunity to appreciate anew some of Van Gogh’s most celebrated works in a context that reveals the backstory of their invention for the first time. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Through August 27th, 2023
- LONDON (UK)
Exhibition: Feeding Consiousness, Dominic Harris
Using complex algorithms trained on his own hand-painted collection of butterflies, Dominic Harris realises his digital lepidopterist dream of bringing new butterfly species to life. The result is an intriguing evolution in his work, manifested by a rabble of new digital butterfly specimens that are each infinitely unique, impossibly beautiful, yet entirely plausible.
Deriving from Harris’ imagination, the butterflies in Unseen are not known species that have been discovered in nature. Yet, it is plausible that butterflies which match Harris’s could one day be found. Through this work, Harris highlights that the destruction of wildlife habitats threatens so much natural beauty that we have not yet had the chance to discover. Through the creation of something beautiful, Harris highlights the dangers of man’s intervention, in these delicate ecosystems, to harrowing effect. Halcyon Gallery, New Bond Street-Mayfair, London.
May 25 – August 13, 2023
