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On January 30th an exhibition of new photographs and sculptures by Nathalia Edenmont will open at Nancy Hoffman Gallery. The exhibition will include 15 photographs of eggs, and 7 sculptures of the same subject made of Carrara marble, as well as a few lilies in Carrara marble. These are the artist’s first sculptures, and this is the first time this major new body of Edenmont’s work will be on view.
While she is known for her portraits of women wearing dresses she composes of flowers or fruits and vegetables, as well as for her collages of butterfly wings that she magnifies into monumental photographic compositions, she was ready to take a leap into unknown territory inspired by her personal connection to the beguiling goose eggs.
In 2012 the artist acquired a collection of unfertilized goose eggs. When Edenmont was told she was infertile and incapable of bearing a child, she rediscovered these beautiful objects, and realized they were a metaphor for her life, and that s…
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On January 30th an exhibition of new photographs and sculptures by Nathalia Edenmont will open at Nancy Hoffman Gallery. The exhibition will include 15 photographs of eggs, and 7 sculptures of the same subject made of Carrara marble, as well as a few lilies in Carrara marble. These are the artist’s first sculptures, and this is the first time this major new body of Edenmont’s work will be on view.
While she is known for her portraits of women wearing dresses she composes of flowers or fruits and vegetables, as well as for her collages of butterfly wings that she magnifies into monumental photographic compositions, she was ready to take a leap into unknown territory inspired by her personal connection to the beguiling goose eggs.
In 2012 the artist acquired a collection of unfertilized goose eggs. When Edenmont was told she was infertile and incapable of bearing a child, she rediscovered these beautiful objects, and realized they were a metaphor for her life, and that s…
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