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Insights on Sophie Calle: Last Seen by Curator Pieranna Cavalchini

The French Cultural Center is honored to welcome the Tom and Lisa

Blumenthal Curator of Contemporary Art at the Isabella Stewart Gardner

Museum, Pieranna Cavalchini. During this special evening, Ms. Cavalchini

will discuss the current Sophie Calle exhibition at the Isabella

Stewart Gardner Museum, as well as Ms. Calle's previous works.

Especially for the public of the French Cultural Center, this talk will

be given in French!



Get special insights about the exhibit and discover or rediscover the

unique realm that Sophie Calle has been developing for over 30 years

through diverse and original artistic initiatives.



Sophie Calle has been called a detective and an artist-sleuth.

Many of her works are investigations into something that is missing, or

else they create an oblique portrait of someone or something that is

absent or undiscovered. She charts the unknown and the mysterious.

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The Gardner 1990 theft is considered by many to be the worst art

heist of the twentieth century. Calle’s proposal to work at the museum

came at what was surely one of the most emotional and sensationalistic

moments in the institution’s 110-year history.



To create her project Last Seen . . . , Calle spent time

with the Museum staff and collection, in the process shifting the

paradigm of the theft from one of loss and sadness to one of creativity

and life. The infamous theft at the Gardner Museum became a trigger for

the making of what is considered today a seminal body of work by the

artist.

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Reception to follow



About Pieranna Cavalchini



Pieranna Cavalchini is an arts professional with experience in

museums, and not-for-profit institutions, and an internationally

recognized curator with knowledge of current art practice. She is

currently the Tom and Lisa Blumenthal Curator of Contemporary Art at the

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, where she has recently

curated solo exhibitions of Victoria Morton, Luisa Lambri, The Raqs

Media Collective and Sophie Calle. She is currently working on an

exhibition project with fashion designer Carla Fernández, which will be

opening at the museum on April 16, 2014.


The French Cultural Center


Map/Directions






RSVP Required (call 617-912-0400

This event is presented in French.




Members: Free

Non-Members: $5.00


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