Up and Coming
June 27, 2008 – September 28, 2008
Luisa Rabbia: travels with Isabella. Scrapbooks 1883/2008
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston (MA)
CONTEMPORARY EXHIBITION: LUISA RABBIA
During her residency at the Gardner Museum, Luisa Rabbia was inspired by photographs purchased and collected by Isabella Stewart Gardner while traveling in China in 1883. For this exhibition, she has used these archival photographs to create a video of an imaginary landscape animated with her own drawings, as well as with other images and music also inspired during her residency. The result is a fantastical narrative that is both contemporary and historical.
Luisa Rabbia’s work is deeply rooted in drawing, which she sees as a platform that unites rational construction with the imagination. The dynamic tension that exists in drawing between the subject figure and its background, the being and becoming of space and time, has influenced much of Rabbia’s work with paper, papier-maché, porcelain and animation.
___________________________________________________________________________________
CURATOR • Pieranna Cavalchini, Curator of Contemporary Art, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum