ROBERTO MARQUEZ EXHIBITION: Commedia
curated by Tanmaya Bingham
Duration: Feb. 5- Mar. 1, 2024
Reception: Thursday, Feb. 8, 4-6 pm
Talk: Thursday, Feb. 8, 4:30 pm (Margaret L. Boyce Recital Hall)
Speakers: Roberto Márquez and Angelo DiSalvo
Location: The Yang Family University Art Gallery (Landini Center for Fine and Performing Arts)
300 North 7th Street, Terre Haute, IN 47809
https://www.indstate.edu/cas/universityartgalleries/yang-gallery
All ISU Exhibitions/Talks are free and open to the public. This means family and friends are welcome.
About:
The exhibition – entitled Commedia – is the realization of Mexican artist Roberto Márquez’s dream to vividly illustrate each canto from Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy. This ambitious project of over 100 mixed-media works began during the Covid global confinement in 2021, which aligned with the commemoration of the 700th anniversary of Dante’s death. Although many artists throughout the centuries – from Pacino di Buonaguida (1280-1340) to William Blake (1757-1827) to Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) – have visually depicted this complex narrative, Márquez’s interpretation is imbued with a visceral atmospheric depth, which brings a unique visual dimension to this epic poem. In this exhibition, the viewer is guided through each of the three sections from the Dante classic – Inferno (Hell), Purgatorio (Purgatory), and Paradiso (Paradise) – to grapple with the vicissitudes of human experience.