WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Saturday, Nov. 23 at 11, in conjunction with the opening of its newest exhibition, Abelardo Morell: In the Company of Monet and Constable, the Clark Art Institute hosts a lecture by the artist Abelardo Morell. 

 

This free event takes place in the Clark’s auditorium, located in the Manton Research Center.

 

According to a press release:

 

Walking in the iconic paths of nineteenth-century landscape painters John Constable and Claude Monet, Morell (b. 1948, Havana; lives and works in Boson) has traveled to locations in England and France with a tent-camera, a device that allows him to unite in a single photographic image the features of a landscape view with whatever happens to be underfoot—leaves, blades of grass, pebbles, cobblestones, and so on. Combining picturesque vistas with ground-level natural details, Morell’s luscious color photographs reflect on one’s relation to art as well as nature through their complex fusion of the historical and the contemporary, the transitory and the lasting, the pictorial and the photographic. Abelardo Morell: In the Company of Monet and Constable showcases over a dozen of the artist’s large-scale photographs.

 

Free. Accessible seats available; for information, call 413 458 0524. For more information, visit clarkart.edu/events.

 

Abelardo Morell: In the Company of Monet and Constable is organized by the Clark Art Institute and curated by Anne Leonard, Manton Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs. 

 

Support for this exhibition is provided by the Troob Family Foundation.