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Annemarie Petri: Rara Avis
Press Release:
Childs Gallery is pleased to present Annemarie Petri: Rara Avis, an exhibition revealing the rare and extraordinary talent of the Hague-based Dutch artist. The show includes prints from several of Petri's varied imaginative series, including Natural Sciences, Atlantis, Genesis, Invisible Cities, and City and Time. Petri's fantastical prints delve into the in-between and out-of-place, considering the interconnectivity of timelines and how we decide to approach ourselves therein.
Petri's Natural Sciences etchings explore the world of hodgepodge curiosity cabinets, obscure museums, and esoteric studies, imagining eclectic collections of flora and fauna from a bygone age. Prints from her Atlantis series envision a submerged fantasy world at the bottom of the ocean, and her Genesis etchings depict her personal vision of the story of creation.
The colorful prints of Petri's Invisible Cities (titled after Italo Calvino's novel of the same name) explore civilizations that exist only in the artist's imagination - built and progressed through thought and circumstance rather than traditional means. Finally, the exhibition also includes examples of Petri's City and Time monoprints, a thematic continuation of the Invisible Cities series. These unique works explore continuous change and the passage of time, using multiple etching plates to layer and intertwine images of the past, present, and future into converging realities of ethereal realms.
Annemarie Petri: Rara Avis will be on view in our upstairs print department April 18 through June 1, 2025.
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