Event: Marisa Culatto and Michael Petry in conversation

Date: 15 October 2015 from 19.00 – 20.00h – NOTICE: RESCHEDULED FOR 19TH NOVEMBER 2015

Artist and curator will engage in a conversation that coincides with Marisa Culatto’s current solo exhibition at the recently launched London art gallery Molina Contemporary. The conversation will be lead by London-based American curator Michael Petry and it will be a comment on Marisa’s show as well as a coverage of her extensive body of work.

 

MICHAEL PETRY

Michael Petry is an artist, curator, Doctor of Arts and Director of Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), London. He is the author of Installation Art, Installation in the New Millennium and The Art of Not Making, all published by Thames & Hudson. His latest book is Nature Morte.

Thought-provoking and richly visual, Nature Morte brings together,for the first time, the poignant, provocative re-imaginings of the traditional still life by over 180 international contemporary artists.

This visually stunning and timely book reveals how leading artists of the 21st century are reinvigorating the still life, a genre previously synonymous with the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Old Masters.
Michael Petry’s careful selection celebrates works by emerging and established artists alike, from all over the globe, including John Currin, Elmgreen & Dragset, Robert Gober, Renata Hegyi, Damien Hirst, David Hockney, Gary Hume, Sarah Lucas, Beatriz Milhazes, Gabriel Orozco, Elizabeth Peyton, Marc Quinn, Gerhard Richter, Sam Taylor-Wood and Ai Wei Wei.

Petry’s engaging, provocative text reveals how contemporary practitioners are revisiting the major motifs of the still life and translating them for the modern world. Petry explores the timeless themes of life, death and the irrevocable passing of time in these new works for our modern world; artworks that invite us to pause and reconsider what it means to be human.