Hunter College Art Galleries Presents BECAUSE I COULD NOT STOP FOR DEATH Exhibit
Hunter College Art Galleries presents BECAUSE I COULD NOT STOP FOR DEATH - Anthony Panzera, Memento Mori Paintings, now on display through September 26, 2015.
THE EXHIBITION
Primarily a figurative painter and printmaker, Anthony Panzera (born 1941) has taught for more than forty years at Hunter College in the Department of Art and Art History. Because I could not stop for Death-Anthony Panzera, Memento Mori Paintings marks the first pedagogically based presentation of the artist's studio practice, displaying each painting alongside the preparatory drawings and studies that facilitated its making. Heavily influenced by Italian Renaissance masters such as Leonardo da Vinci, Panzera has spent many decades building a body of work based on careful observation. The memento mori theme, which refers to the representation of objects laden with symbolic meaning to remind the viewer of the transience of life's pleasures and the inevitability of death, has played a vital role in the history of painting. Similarly, using objects to evoke both the history of art as well as a personal history, Panzera's Memento Mori series functions not to reify any particular narrative, but instead to remind the viewer of the inescapable onward march of time.Videos