Modern Melancholy
March 28, through May 26, 2013
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Modern Melancholy installed in the Hood Museum's Ivan Albright Gallery. Photo by Jeffrey Nintzel.
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Modern Melancholy installed in the Hood Museum's Ivan Albright Gallery. Photo by Jeffrey Nintzel.
Series
A Space for Dialogue 76
Location
Temporary Exhibitions, Ivan Albright Gallery
About
The artists selected for this exhibition express the melancholic condition within a contemporary context and raise questions about what distinguishes melancholy today. In a society of constant sensory stimulation, instant gratification, and hedonistic saturation, have happiness and satisfaction become an obligation? Have we attained the object of our desire but lost the reason for its desirability? Through their deliberate interpretations of melancholic subjects and settings, the artists in this exhibition realize the vitality that emerges as the melancholic sees opportunities everywhere to mourn this lost desire. In fact, melancholy's redemption lies precisely within those infinitely unfolding creative and intellectual possibilities that it reveals.
A Space for Dialogue, founded with support from the Class of 1948, is made possible with generous endowments from the Class of 1967, Bonnie and Richard Reiss Jr., Class of 1966, and Pamela J. Joyner, Class of 1979.
Exhibition Curator
Jane Cavalier