Press Release
Mid Manhattan Library
The Art Collection
455 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10016
212-340-0871
Contact: Arezoo Moseni
"The Library Painting"
A site-specific installation by Mia Enell
Date: 05 January ? 14 April 2006
The Art Collection
3rd Floor
The Art Collection at Mid-Manhattan Library is pleased to present a site-specific project by the accomplished Swedish born multi-media artist Mia Enell. "The Library Painting" is the result of several dialogues between the artist and the art librarian Arezoo Moseni and the subsequent preliminary drawings.
This painting was inspired by the nature of book and reading within the environment of libraries. The book as a shelter, invites one to the solitude and silence of reading, and in some occasions leads magically to different forms of exchange between people. The images of connecting threads in the painting were inspired by ancient Inca Khipu colored knotted pieces of string probably used for communication. "The library painting" makes playful and subtle references to the complicated nature of gestural and verbal communication, and the imagery acts as a bridge between the verbal and the visual experience encountered in a work of art.
This exhibition curated by Arezoo Moseni, is the fourth in the "Art Wall on Third" exhibition series. Mid-Manhattan Library will host a conversation, "The Library Dialogue," between the artist and the curator William Stover along with the screening of Mrs. Enell?s most recent video titled "Pouring," (2005) on February 27th at 6:30 p.m.
Hours: Mon 9-9/ Tue 9-9/ Wed 9-9/ Thu 10-6/ Fri 10-6/ Sat 10-6
http://www.nypl.org/events/
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