Abelardo Morell, The Universe Next Door
The J Paul Getty Museum of los Angeles will host, The Universe Next Door, an exhibition of works by photographer Abelardo Morell (Havana, 1948). The show was organized by the Art Institute of Chicago and Atlanta's Hight Museum of Art, and it features more than 100 photographs arranged into six sections.
Morell's unique use of technique, his sensibility, and his insatiable curiosity about the potential of the image, have gained him international recognition. This Cuban artist of a Spanish background went into exile in the United States in his adolescence, and it was there that he studied photography and became a professional in the field.
The exhibition includes works from two camera obscura series, began in 1991: Cameras obscuras images in black and white and Cameras obscuras images in color. Morell began to transform rooms into outsize camera obscura devices, letting light filter through a small hole to project images from outside onto one of the interior walls. In this way the Empire State Building, the Golden Gate Bridge, the Ufizzi, or the river Thames enter through his window to create dream-like scenes in black and white.
Also included are photographs in Morell's Tent Camera technique, wherein the artist sets up a semicircular tent with a periscope at its cusp, through which images of the surrounding landscape are projected onto the ground.
The Universe Next Door, will be open through January 5th 2014.
