Forbidden Fruit: Chris Antemann at MEISSEN

Event Schedules

Bellevue Arts Museum

510 Bellevue Way NE, Bellevue 98004

Feb 26 2016 - May 29 2016

Event Description

 

Join Chris Antemann for a presentation about her exhibition Forbidden Fruit on Saturday, February 27!

 

Related Artist Talk: Chris Antemann | February 27

Using the Garden of Eden as her metaphor, artist Chris Antemann created a contemporary celebration of the 18th-century banqueting craze. Inspired by MEISSEN's great historical model of Johann Joachim Kändler's monumental Love Temple (1750), Antemann created her own 5-foot work. Stripping the original design back to its basic forms, she added her own figures, ornamentation, and flowers, as well as a special finial with three musicians to herald the guests to the banquet below.

 

Employing her signature wit and formal references to classic Baroque MEISSEN figurines, Antemann has invented a new narrative on contemporary morality through her one-of-a-kind porcelain figures in a setting that evokes the decadence of Boucher and Watteau.

 

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