October 6th to November 6th, 2007

White Hall, Convento de San Francisco de Asís
Oficios between Amargura and Churruca,
Plaza de San Francisco de Asís,
Old Havana
Tel: 8623467 y 8629683
E-mail: sanfrancisco@cultural.ohch.cu

Exhibition organized by Centro de Arte
Contemporáneo Wifredo Lam
San Ignacio at the corner of 22 . Empedrado,
Plaza de la Catedral, Old Havana
Tel: 8612096
Fax: 8661198
E-mail: wlam@cubarte.cult.cu

In addition the exhibition will travel to:

Museo de Arte de Pinar (MAPRI), Pinar del Río, November-December, 2007
Centro Provincial de Arte La Habana, San Antonio de los Baños, January-February, 2008
Centro Provincial de Arte de Matanzas, February-March, 2008
Galería de Arte de Cárdenas, March-April, 2008

Peter Nadin has not shown work since 1992, when he stopped showing in an attempt to “unlearn how to make art”. The past decade and a half has been marked by an intensively private artistic outpouring on the farm he owns with his wife in the Catskill Mountains.

Old Field Farm accommodates 150 acres of forest, wild bee pasture, habitat for goats, chickens, hogs, and vegetable and fruit gardens. The paintings and sculptures included in this exhibition involve a process closely linked to the farm, its animals, its vegetation, and its environs. The tactile, olfactory, visual, and auditory experiences of the land move him to create marks on linen using materials from the farm: honey, wax, bee propolis, black walnut, elderberry, chicken eggs, and cashmere wool.

His First Mark series is therefore analogous to medieval relics. The reliquary held a fragment of the saintly corpus, whereas the painting or icon was mimetic. The seventy-six paintings and sculptures featured in this series represent an artistic process nearly fifteen years in the making that returns art to the most basic impulse from which it first emerged.

Catalogue
Published by Charta, Milan 2007 available: www.artbooks.com

First mark: Unlearning how to make art
By Peter Nadin
Published by Edgewise Press Inc, New York

Website: www.peternadin.com.

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to enlarge




A Mark Becomes A
Body, 2003.
Wax, Honey, Black Walnut on Linen.
82x55 in.





Peter Nadin with pig,
October 2007