The Object and State of Wonder: The Stony Island Arts Bank as Wunderkammer
@ Stony Island Arts Bank
6760 S Stony Island Ave · Chicago, IL
Opening Friday, February 19th, from 6PM - 8PM
Presenters Caroline Grey and Sharon Bautista will introduce the concept of Wunderkammer, or a cabinet of curiosities. These cabinets, or, in some cases, whole rooms popular in the 17th century, were displays of natural and made objects collected by experts and amateurs alike. These collections, long-gone, survive only in inventories, prints, and paintings:
“a drawing in chalk of the great fair of Almachata in Arabia, which is held at night to avoid the great heat of the sun…a dream image showing a prairie or sea meadow at the bottom of the Mediterranean, off the coast of Provence” (from Sir Thomas Browne’s Bibliotheca Abscondita)
Using the Stony Island collections as a starting point, Sharon and Caroline will discuss the history, assemblage, and definition of wonder.
Tall cake reception to follow. RSVP here: https://wunderkammer.typeform.com/to/Dbz9PC
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