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New Jersey Art Museums
New Jersey Art Museums
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Lalla Essaydi: Les Femmes de Maroc
Lalla Essaydi is poised at the intersection of two cultures.
Category: New Brunswick Art Museum in New Jersey
Description of this New Brunswick Attraction: Born in Morocco into a conservative Muslim family and educated in Europe and the United States, Lalla Essaydi is poised at the intersection of two cultures. She is one of several contemporary Islamic women artists whose subjects are informed by feminist perspectives and personal experience. Her work has garnered increasing acclaim in Europe and America; in 2011 she will be the subject of a mid-career survey at the North Carolina Museum of Art.
Lalla Essaydi: Les Femmes de Maroc comprises 17 large scale photographs selected from the artist’s most recent series. The title of the series, Les Femmes de Maroc,is adapted from Eugene Delacroix’s iconic painting, Les Femmes d’Algiers of 1834. The painting by Delacroix, while based on his actual travels in North Africa, is a fictive vision of languorous women in an opulent harem. Paintings like these, which coincided with the nineteenth-century European occupation of much of the Arab world, fostered a view of the Middle East as a sensual paradise of sexually available women, rich colors and exotic tastes. Essaydi takes these Orientalist paintings of the nineteenth and early twentieth century as a point of departure for her own de-colonializing enterprise. She drains the paintings of color, removes all male figures, drapes the women and all surfaces in white fabric, and sets everything within a shallow stage-like space. All visible surfaces—backdrops, floor, drapery, skin-- are inscribed with Arabic calligraphy. These texts are subversive on several levels. In Islamic cultures calligraphy is a male art form, used primarily to transcribe the Q’uran and other sacred literature, however, in Essaydi’s work, the texts – musings on personal freedom, cultural and individual identity, memory and communication taken from her personal journals -- are applied with henna, a tradition associated with women. Her transformations of the original paintings reverberate with the historical past while revealing the colonial and gendered perspectives of historic and contemporary Orientalism.
Organized by Nick Capasso, Senior Curator, DeCordova Sculpture Park + Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts
Coordinated by Donna Gustafson, Liaison for the Mellon Program and Assistant Curator of American Art, Zimmerli Art Museum
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The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum
University Art Museum
Category: New Brunswick Art Museum in New Jersey
Description of this New Brunswick Attraction: The Zimmerli Art museum is located at the corner of Hamilton and George Street in New Brunswick is one of the country's largest university art museums (within the top 5). The Zimmerli museum contains art ranging over many historical styles and geographic regions. It has holdings in Western art from the Renaissance to the present, with in-depth collections of 19th and 20th French century graphic arts such as prints, posters, illustrated books and drawings. Other collections include those of European and American painting sculpture, printmaking and the graphic arts, Modernism, the Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection of Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union (the largest and most important collection of its kind), Japonisme, and Original Illustrations for Children's Literature, among others. In addition to permanent installations, temporary exhibitions are regularly scheduled. To view those presently on view and those forthcoming, please visit the Zimmerli's website.
The Zimmerli offers a wide selection of educational and cultural programs for all ages, including concerts, gallery talks and lectures. There are regularly scheduled art workshops and other family activities. The Museum also contains an interactive learning center for children and the family, plus the Zimmerli's gift shop where quality and unique gifts can be found for all. During one's visit, experience the Northstar Cafe at the Zimmerli which offers a wide selection of salads, sandwiches and specialty house-favorites.
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