Wesleyan University’s Davison Art Center presents "For Effect: Emphatic Bodies from the Renaissance to the Industrial Age" April 5 through May 26, 2019
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Middletown, Conn.—Wesleyan University's Davison Art Center presents the exhibition "For Effect: Emphatic Bodies from the Renaissance to the Industrial Age" curated by Miya Tokumitsu from Friday, April 5 through Sunday, May 26, 2019. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Sunday from Noon to 4pm. Gallery admission is free. Please see below for more information about the exhibition.
The public is invited to attend the opening reception and gallery talk on Thursday, April 4, 2019 from 5pm to 7pm at the Davison Art Center, located at 301 High Street on the Wesleyan campus in Middletown, Connecticut. There will be a gallery talk at 5:30pm by Davison Art Center Curator Miya Tokumitsu. The opening reception is free, and is co-sponsored by the Wesleyan University Center for the Humanities in connection with the spring theme “Hyperbole: Sense, Sensation, Spectacle.” The exhibition is supported in part by the Ellen G. D’Oench Curator’s Fund.
About the Exhibition
From eye rolls to statement jewelry—we exaggerate with our bodies as much as with our words, if not more so. Yet, more than 500 years after the Renaissance, conceptions of the "normal" body remain grounded in ideals of the human body as mathematically proportional, static, and unadorned. This exhibition examines the obverse of these ideals, and presents bodies exaggerated by their accoutrements, pose, and anatomical proportion from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries. Across artistic movements and historical contexts, artists exaggerated bodies to evoke from spectators responses as widely ranging as sympathy, shock, offense, or desire.
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A digital image suitable for reproduction is available above. Please note that the image may be used only in direct connection with this press release or with other timely coverage of the exhibition it concerns. For further information please contact Andrew Chatfield, Director, Arts Communication at (860) 685-2806 or achatfield@wesleyan.edu.
Listen to a conversation between between Curator of the Davison Art Center Miya Tokumitsu and Associate Director of Visual Arts Benjamin Chaffee about this exhibition on the Center for the Arts Radio Hour: