Intimacies, an art exhibit inspired by poetry of Pablo Neruda
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Send to friendIn the context of the Bicentennial celebration ProChile Los Angeles is sponsoring Intimacies, an art exhibit inspired by poetry of Pablo Neruda.
At Edward Cella Art + Architecture, ECAA gallery. 6018 Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90036.
An opening reception will be held Saturday, March 6, 2010, from 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM.
Exhibition on view through April 17, 2010.
Mary Heebner’s lush, alluring works on paper is inspired by the love poems of famed Chilean poet Pablo Neruda. Heebner’s work is also featured in Intimacies: Poems of Love (Harper Collins), a book of Neruda’s poems translated by prominent Neruda scholar Alastair Reid.
Intimacies, visually explores Neruda’s presentation of love through Heebner’s delicate, yet powerful display of female nudes. Motivated by a visit to Neruda’s former home on Isla Negra, Chile, Heebner enlists watercolor, powdered copper pigment, graphite and acrylic to imbue each drawing with a tactile, skin-like effect. Using a warm palette of copper, ochre and rose, Heebner offers abstract illustrations of the female form, as seen through the seductive lens of Neruda’s poetry.
