Conceived as a somewhat protean inquiry into the artistic representation of human forms, this simposio exhibit brings together a group of five artists whose works confront directly, and via markedly distinctive modes of expression, the very deep, perhaps even deeply necessary tradition of such representational norms. The artists’ creation or selection of exhibited works, as well as their variably elucidatory written contributions, derive from their personal interpretations of a diverse set of anthropomorphological, one might say, themes and readings.

Featured artists: Jim Herbert, Thomas Micchelli, Matthew Miller, Don Pablo Pedro, Adam Simon

Simposio reading assignments: 1. “Shells,” The Poetics of Space, Gaston Bachelard. 2. Passages and quotes excerpted from works by Max Beckmann, Mehdi Belhaj Kacem, Jean-Luc Nancy, Tom Morton and Gaston Bachelard.

Nota bene: In this exhibit, the etymological nuances of mostri – ‘monsters’ – are far from irrelevant.