Daniel Horowitz & Marc Porée
Avec Christine Zumello
L’art d’enjamber et/ou raccommoder : peinture et poésie Seams and Stitches of creation and Poetry
Wednesday, November 20th 2019, 7 pm Auditorium
Free admission,
within the limits of seats Talk in French and English
Daniel Horowitz’s artistic practice is characterized by a unique combination of realism and surrealist abstraction, which he combines through the manipulation of archival images. He recently introduced sewing as an essential component of his work.
Academic and 19th-21st c. English poetry Critic Marc Porée is also well versed in the art of "sewing", as with words this time, as poetry is for him letters and images assembled around a common meaning. Thinking of Emily Dickinson’s hand-sown manuscript collections while looking at Horowitz's work...
How does a creator that is also a handyman -- whether a visual artist or a poet -- go about creating something from the realities of everyday life, and, in doing so, succeeds in patching up, sewing together, unstitching, and spanning the intervals between one line of verse and the next and reducing (or not) the gaps?
‘‘Mind the gap, in short...’’
Organized by the Cité internationale des arts, in partnership with the Institut des Amériques,
and with the support of Christine Zumello (lecturer in American Civilization at the Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3 University), this conversation will mark the start of a cycle questioning parallel trajectories that usually wouldn't meet and are yet driven by common questions.
Daniel Horowitz (USA) was a recipient of the Cité internationale des arts Visual Arts Committees in 2017-2018.