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Leonard Lehrer - Twelve Views of Paradise
 Scuola Lorenzo de' Medici
is pleased to present the exhibition, Twelve Views of Paradise, of digital
prints by Leonard Lehrer in his first Italian show, to be held 21-24
and 28 April at Chiesa S. Jacopo in Campo Corbolini, Via Faenza 43,
Florence.
Lehrer is Associate Provost at Columbia College of Chicago and a Professor
Emeritus of New York University, as well as the President of the MidAmerica
College Art Association. His works are held in over 90 public collections
worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum
of Art, New York, The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, and the
Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris. His awards include the Grand
Prize of the Heitland Foundation, Celle, Germany and an Artist-in Residence
Fulbright Scholar Program Grant to Greece in print-making to name a
few.
The exhibition includes the debut of some of Lehrer's newest prints.
The digital images are assembled using photo editing software and printed
with an inkjet printer onto photo paper. These works have been carefully
selected by the artist and predominantly embody the theme of the garden
(literally and metaphorically) whilst also incorporating Western high
culture and Islamic court art.
"Structure and design are joined; decorative elements, parts of gardens,
segments of buildings are all integrated: the human sources as well
form the new and personal reality that is the sum of life and the art
of Leonard Lehrer," commented David M. Sokol, the Director of Museum
Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
This exhibition hopes to create a meaningful and lasting relationship
with the local community by once again re-opening the doors of the Church
of S. Jacopo in Campo Corbolini, as well as bringing contemporary art
into the context of the recently restored church-one of Florence's
oldest, and until now, unknown treasures.
Twelve Views of Paradise is coordinated by the students and instructor
of the Exhibition Management class at Lorenzo de' Medici School.
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