The Butcher's Shop

Event Type Exhibitions
Date calendar  Monday, June 24, 2019
Time clock  12:00pm - 5:00pm (5h)
Location Media Arts Gallery
Details

The Butcher’s Shop was commissioned by the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas as an homage to their 16th-century Annibale Carracci painting of the same name. Through a series of vivid images presented on a split screen, Philip Haas conjures up the world of the butchers, the world of the artist, and the encounter that led to the painting. The images on one screen show the scene in the Carracci painting: two butchers working amid wooden trellises with iron spikes and hooks from which hang animal carcasses. On the other screen, we see the opposite side of the shop, a view not shown in the painting, where Carracci has set up an easel to paint the butchers at work. The film is a meditation on Carracci’s painting, the painter’s character, and artistic preoccupations.

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