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Monini Extra Virgin Olive Oil is
proud to support the exhibition Present Tense: Photographs
by JoAnn Verburg on view at The Museum of Modern Art,
New York, NY from July 15- November 5, 2007. |
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The JoAnn Verburg
exhibition is the culmination of a four-year project in Italy-photographing
the olive orchards and sacred trees of Spoleto, revealing
her profound interest in the reciprocity between humans and
nature. The artist has made annual visits to Spoleto
since 1984 and recently purchased a home there with
her husband, poet Jim Moore.
The design of the exhibition and its accompanying materials
speak to the mystery of sacred landscape and the complex dynamic
of living cycles, agriculture, and commerce. Its arrangement
reflects a sensitivity to the architecture, the scale of the
viewer, and the relationship between implied and actual time-issues
more often linked to installation art, architecture, or theater,
than to conventional photography. Verburg acknowledged the
olive tree as a powerful metaphor for exchange, a living form
essential to Italian culture. She made a gift of these works
in her presentation of living cultural icons that do much
to stimulate our own wonder and questions about indigenous
relationships with landscapes and what we consider sacred
in nature.
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