METAL OF HONOR: GOLD FROM SIMONE MARTINI TO CONTEMPORARY ART

Tuesday, October 11, 2022
6:30 - 9 pm

Please join us for a special preview of Metal of Honor: Gold from Simone Martini to Contemporary Art. Discover the allure and significance of one of the world’s most precious metals this fall at the Gardner. The exhibition explores how four artists, of different times and different places, use gold as an artistic strategy for innovation and honor. Works by Simone Martini (c. 1284-1344), whose novel compositions and masterful techniques were unequaled in Europe and well ahead of his time, are juxtaposed with works by three contemporary painters—Titus Kaphar, Stacy Lynn Waddell, and Kehinde Wiley. These artists reinterpret the style and medium of devotional imagery to explore the meaning of representation, commemoration, and adoration today. Extending into the Fenway Gallery with works from Kaphar’s The Jerome Project and onto the Anne H. Fitzpatrick Façade with a new commission by Waddell, the connections among these works invite us to consider how artists create in the present by building on accomplishments of the distant past.

The evening will include:

Exhibition Viewing Remarks by Peggy Fogelman, Norma Jean Calderwood Director Curatorial insights from Nathaniel Silver, William and Lia Poorvu Curator of the Collection and Division Head Special Programming in Calderwood Hall Cocktails and light bites Space is limited. Please contact us at patrons@isgm.org or 617-264-6045 to reserve your place.

Top image credit: Bearwalk Cinema

Metal of Honor: Gold from Simone Martini to Contemporary Art is supported by the Abrams Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Wagner Foundation, the Robert Lehman Foundation, Fredericka and Howard Stevenson, and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation.

Additional support is provided by an endowment grant from the Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Titus Kaphar: The Jerome Project is supported by the Abrams Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Wagner Foundation, the Robert Lehman Foundation, and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation.

Media Partner: The Boston Globe

The Artist-in-Residence program is directed by Pieranna Cavalchini, Tom and Lisa Blumenthal Curator of Contemporary Art, and is supported by the Barbara Lee Program Fund.

Funding is also provided for site-specific installations of new work on the Anne H. Fitzpatrick Façade on Evans Way.

The Museum receives operating support from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, which is supported by the state of Massachusetts and the National Endowment for the Arts.