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Theo Wujcik’s “Gates of Hell” (1987)

February 19, 2021 By Jasmine George, FSU '24

“One of Tampa Bay’s best-known artists, Theo Wujcik (1936-2014), spent a decade creating a series drawn from the dark and profound literary classic, Dante’s Inferno. Now, those extraordinary paintings are the theme for Theo Wujcik: Cantos, a special exhibition organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg. This exhibition celebrates the work of Theo Wujcik (1936–2014), with a focus on the literary references in his work. A fixture of the Ybor City art scene, Wujcik was an accomplished master printer and painter whose expansive practice engaged deeply with art historical tradition and the global contemporary art world.

“This exhibition will premiere the Museum’s newest accession of Wujcik’s work, the diptych Gates of Hell (1987), which complements Canto II (1997), also in the collection. Both of these paintings are based on Italian poet Dante Alighieri’s (1265–1321) Inferno, the first part of the epic poem Divine Comedy. Also featured will be selections from the artist’s personal notebooks, collage studies, and a number of select loans.”  —Museum of Fine Arts St. Petersburg, 2019

Learn more about Theo Wujcik’s exhibition here.

Categories: Image Mosaic, Visual Art & Architecture
Tagged with: 2019, Art, Art History, Exhibitions, Fine Art, Florida, Gates of Hell, Inferno, St. Petersburg, Tampa

“Columbia Art League Exhibit Honors Dante With Visions of the Afterlife”

February 6, 2021 By Laura Chatellier, FSU '23

columbia-art-league-dante-visions-of-afterlife-2021“CAL’s current exhibit, The Divine Comedy, is grounded in Dante Alighieri’s medieval masterwork, a revealing, often harrowing pilgrimage through the stations of the afterlife. CAL artists responded to Dante’s themes, and everlasting concepts of life beyond our own, in personal and particular ways.

“Heaven, hell and purgatory are represented within these images, and relatively well-balanced, CAL education and outreach director Karen Shortt-Stout said. Given the existential troubles of 2020 and early 2021, she thought artists might bend in greater number toward the visual language of fire and brimstone.

“Viewers don’t have to be well-acquainted with Dante — or ascribe to any particular theology — to see themselves represented in the exhibit, she said.

“‘Certainly the idea of hell, the idea of purgatory, of being in limbo or the idea of heaven — bliss — these are psychological states that we all experience in our daily lives,’ she said. ‘A lot of the artists grabbed onto that interpretation.’

“Bliss radiates from one corner of the gallery. In close proximity, pieces by Peggy Hurley and Jane Mudd offer distinct but equally compelling visions of joy. Hurley’s encaustic and mixed-media “Shower of Grace and Love” evokes a metaphysical wash of color, light and kindness.

“Mudd’s oil painting ‘Paradisio, Afterlife Party’ bears witness as figures dance, freed from the bonds of earthly existence. They boogie down beneath shapely clouds which bear the visage of God-as-bearded-old-man and resemble other divine creatures.” [. . .]    –Aarik Danielsen, Columbia Daily Tribune, January 31, 2021.

Categories: Visual Art & Architecture, Written Word
Tagged with: 2021, Afterlife, America, Art, Exhibitions, Journalism, Purgatory, United States, Visual Art

Interview with Maru Ceballos

September 2, 2019 By Alexa Kellenberger FSU '22

“De la mano artística de Maru Ceballos, y para todos aquellos fanáticos de Dante Alighieri y su Divina Comedia, llega una muestra súper interesante al Museo Mitre. Hasta el 10 mayo de este año se podrá visitar la obra ‘Los círculos del Dante: La Divina Comedia ilustrada por Maru Ceballos’. ¿En qué consiste la obra? En la ilustración de los 100 cantos de La Divina Comedia más los mapas correspondientes a cada cántica (Infierno, Purgatorio, Paraíso). A continuación, la palabra de la mismísima autora.

“Maru Ceballos y su idea de ‘Los círculos del Dante’

‘Me contactó Luciana Ferrazzi del Museo Mitre (habían visto la serie en redes sociales a través de la movida #Dante2018 que inició en Twitter Pablo Maurette). Fue así que me propusieron armarla en el marco de varias actividades que se realizarán alrededor de Dante y la Divina Comedia. Mitre fue un fanático de la obra y – creo – el primer traductor latinoamericano de esa obra en español’ [. . .]

“¿Quiénes pueden participar de esta obra?

Maru Ceballos explica que al tratarse de una obra con énfasis en los simbolismos, hay mucha crudeza y violencia visual. ‘Nada que no esté en los textos de la Divina Comedia”, aclara. “Supongo que no apunta a un público que guste de resoluciones visuales texto-imagen literales. No se van a encontrar a Dante de la mano con Virgilio, sino con un cúmulo de situaciones con énfasis en lo simbólico. Creo que apunta a un público curioso con ganas de ver una versión no tradicional de las ilustraciones de la obra de Dante’

[. . .]    –Julieta B. Mollo, .ITBuenosAires, March 14, 2018.

To view more of Maru Ceballos’ artwork, you can follow her on VSCO, Instagram, and Twitter.

See other posts related to #Dante2018 here.

Contributed by Pablo Maurette (Florida State University)

Categories: Visual Art & Architecture, Written Word
Tagged with: #Dante2018, Argentina, Art, Artists, Buenos Aires, Exhibitions, Illustrations, Interviews

Summer Exhibition of Marble Carvings at the Casa Galiano (2018)

July 23, 2018 By Professor Elizabeth Coggeshall

The Casa Galiano (East Brunswick, NJ) presents an outdoor exhibition of 18 marble carvings of the Divine Comedy. The carvings are on exhibit in summer and fall 2018. For more information, visit the Casa Galiano website.

Casa-Galiano-Farinata
Virgil and the pilgrim meet Farinata

While visiting, be sure to check out the Dante Sculpture Garden and Wall Mural, featured on Dante Today here.

Contributed by Dino Galiano

Categories: Visual Art & Architecture
Tagged with: 2018, East Brunswick, Exhibitions, New Jersey, Sculptures

“Dalí: A Divina Comédia” at CAIXA Cultural São Paulo (2013)

January 2, 2014 By Professor Elizabeth Coggeshall

DaliParaiso“The 100 illustrations that Spanish surrealist painter Salvador Dali did in the 1960s to mark the 700th anniversary of Dante Alighieri’s ‘The Divine Comedy’ are being exhibited in Sao Paulo, the last stop on a tour of Brazil.

“The exhibition, which runs until Oct. 27 [2013], is being held at the Caixa Cultural in Sao Paulo.” [ . . . ]    —EFE, September 2, 2013

Contributed by Vanessa Teixeira

Categories: Visual Art & Architecture
Tagged with: 2013, Brazil, Exhibitions, Illustrations, Sao Paulo

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