As a lover of the arts, and someone who actually reads museum placards, art lingo can be a hard one to get right. Here is an excerpt from one of the more flowery press releases I’ve written.
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Christian Duvernois Gallery will open with its inaugural show, a solo exhibition by contemporary Slovakian artist Lucia Papčo, entitled Arcadia. The 12 photographs and 6-minute video featured in the show, taken in the forested mountains of Papčo’s native Slovakia, capture the sublime, yet fleeting moments when light, angle and shadow align to reveal a more perfect vision of the landscape.
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In many cases, the light conditions she sought to capture occur only a few days of the year, for a few minutes per day. The ephemeral nature of these “Arcadian moments” required the artist to spend a significant amount of time observing and documenting the changes in light and how they affected her perception of place… By underexposing the photographs and transforming a colored reality into a monochromatic image, Papčo evokes a sense of abstraction from the physical environment.
