Gallery Talk: Monsters, Nonsense, and Wonder

Lecture

Friday, August 23, 2019, 6:00–7:00 p.m.

Location: Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation Exhibition Gallery

*Taming the Tarasque*, from Hours of Henry VIII, in Latin (detail), c. 1500. Illuminated by Jean Poyer (French, active 1465-1503). Ink, tempera, and gold on vellum; 25.6 x 18 cm (10 1/16 x 7 1/16 in.). The Morgan Library & Museum, Gift of the Heineman Foundation, 1977, MS H.8 (fol. 191v)

About The Event

Contemporary artist Sean Foley explores the monstrous and grotesque in his painting practice. He discusses key works in Medieval Monsters: Terrors, Aliens, Wonders through a prism of wonder. Using “nonsense” as a point of departure, Foley encourages visitors to encounter monsters in a way that sparks their own imaginative inquiries and curiosity.