Exhibitions
Critical Painting: Printmaking as a Laboratory of Thought at Harvard
We head to Massachusetts to visit the Harvard Art Museums, where the exhibition Critical Painting is on display from January 24 to May 10. The show offers a journey marked by unexpected juxtapositions, dialogues forged through the gaze between lesser-known prints, designed to stimulate an experimental perspective and open new lines of thought.
The AFVS 215 course, taught by Jennifer L. Roberts (History of Art and Architecture) and Matt Saunders (Art, Film, and Visual Studies), invites students to delve into printmaking from both practical and critical perspectives. Moving between the workshop, the classroom, and the museum, participants explore diverse printmaking techniques while grappling with essential questions of its history and theory.
The installation is organized into subsections that engage transversally with the axes of the academic program, addressing printmaking as a territory where matter, space, energy, and time converge. In this context, prints reveal themselves as objects capable of traversing dimensions, opening thresholds to other worlds, containing and releasing energy, or holding fluidity in suspension. They can also unfold overflowing biological imagery or foster encounters with the mineral stillness of eternity. In these deliberately unconventional groupings, new ways of understanding the medium emerge, and unprecedented paths for research are outlined.
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