Alana Kennedy
tormentate i sensi
August 6th – September 5th 2009
Alana
Kennedy's installation, 'tormentate i sensi', muses on immortality, mythology
& epicurean
delicacies to 'tantalize the senses' and to richly combine this mystery
with painting.
Welcome
to Alana Kennedy’s Marsilio Ficino Temporary Dining Room.... where
to dine is not
merely to eat.... Envisaged for the purpose of serving Hesperidean delicacies....
The artist will
make the Temporary Dining Room available (by special appointment) to all
who wish to dine
and host a private dinner or soirée.
This
dining room is named after Marsilio Ficino, the 15th century Florentine
philosopher who
ignited the cultural revolution that elevated dining to an art form, and
together with his translations
of classical antiquity, fed and elevated the mind and status of 'a painter'
into the realm of an artist.
Marsilio
Ficino's influence in the circles of the great Renaissance painters, particularly
Sandro
Botticelli, and of his famed philosophical feasts, reputedly modest but
divine, at the Villa Medici,
Careggi, is integral to Alana Kennedy's 2009 project. Inspiration for
Botticelli's 'Primavera' is
attributed to these gatherings.
In
2009, the artist continues her improvisations on art and epicure.... following
on from The
Painted Gardens of a Honey Empress 2007, L'Oignon 2005, and Domestic Bliss
and Jelly 2004.
Alana Kennedy's recent painting cycle 'The Garden of the Hesperides',
in dark sumptuous grounds,
captures floral studies inspired from the dark flower field foreground
of Botticelli's Primavera.
Known also during the Renaissance as the Garden of the Hesperides, these
paintings both define
and hang on the walls of the dining room. The dining room is a furnished
installation with Kate
Rohde's divine frenzy of faux Italianate creation; where within, is juxtaposed
Mark Chapman’s
bespoke interpretation of a 15th century Florentine philosophers’
table.
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Opening night Salon
Thursday 6th August 2009, 6pm – 8pm
Hesperidean gastronomical offerings are available for
all. Alana Kennedy along with two
precociously talented young women from the local Melbourne epicurean realm,
Sophie Cookes
and Nicole De Bono of Cookes Food, are offering menus for private dinners
and soirées (by
appointment only).
Music Salons in association with the 'Composers Club'
will present Sunday Salons.
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> For information about reservations, contact Chapman
& Bailey.
Chapman & Bailey Gallery 03 9415 8666.
Gallery hours: Monday to Friday 10am to 5.30pm and Saturday 11am to 5pm.
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Thank you to the following people:
Mark Chapman
Kate Rohde
Robert Nelson
Tina Douglas
Jay Bhattacharya
Roddis Thomson
Ursula Bolch
Sari Harris
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