Opening Fri 11/5 @ 6 – 8PM
After you check out BODIES (which will be display for a couple more months), check out some medically-inspired art @ the Cleveland Institute of Art. These aren’t your average medical textbook illustrations — these are photographs from the Mütter Museum and H. F. Aitken Illustrations from the Dittrick Medical History Center. Plus, flat screen monitors will display CIA student work from the Biomedical Art program.
Details:
Disease, tumors, and teratology seem like unusual subjects for artists, but the history of art is filled with examples of medical maladies. Images of deformity and dissection evoke a mixture of anguish, sympathy, and wonder.
This exhibition includes contemporary works by renowned photographers of Philadelphia’s Mütter Museum’s collection that extend the boundaries of traditional photographic subject matter. A selection of images from the museum’s historical photography archive are also included as well as images from the H. F. Aitken collection of biomedical art, which comprises some 2,000+ sketches, drawings, paintings, prints, and books from the estate of Hamlet Frederick Aitken (1872–1939), an artist and medical illustrator.
Exhibition on display through Sat 11/18.
Cleveland Institute of Art – 11141 East Blvd. – Cle: University Circle
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