Description
Nature of Gothic is a site-specific contemporary art exhibition, curated by Past Present Projects, of the art work of Leo Tecosky (Brooklyn) and Samara Weaver (Wilmington) at Rockwood Park & Museum. This historic house museum, a mansion in the woods, was built at the height of the “Gothic Revival” period and celebrates this Romantic trend of the 1800s with decorative and architectural details derived from nature. Drawing inspiration from the mansion and its museum collections, the artists created original sculptures in glass that respond to the symbolism of this architectural movement, the identities of the people who inhabited this space through time, and this site’s relationship to the natural (and unnatural) world. The exhibition title was inspired by 19th-century English design critic John Ruskin’s chapter “The Nature of Gothic” from his landmark architecture treatise The Stones of Venice.
Sound engineer and composer Justin Geller has created original soundscapes for each of these installations.
Included with admission to Rockwood Museum. All ages.