Diana Al-Hadid: Liquid City
http://sjmusart.org/exhibition/diana-al-hadid-liquid-city
The San Jose Museum of Art will present an exhibition of work by Diana Al-Hadid, February 24 – September 24, 2017. Diana Al-Hadid: Liquid City will showcase Al-Hadid’s monumental sculpture Nolli’s Orders (2012). Also on view will be related works by the Syrian-American artist as well as source materials, including the landmark 1748 map of Rome by Giambattista Nolli (1701 – 1756).
Nolli’s Orders, a multi-tiered thirteen feet-high sculpture, will anchor SJMA’s central skylight gallery like a baroque fountain in a Roman Piazza. Its title refers to Nolli’s Nuova pianta di Roma [New Map of Rome] (1748), the first map of its kind to show the both the public and private spaces of the city. Fascinated by such boundaries, Al-Hadid draws on a variety of art-historical and scientific references to explore the spaces between the real and imagined, interior and exterior, two-dimensional mark-making and three-dimensional sculpture, the ruin and the not-yet-completed.
