“Follies Folly” comprises the work of two contemporary artists: the folly structure was created by scenic designer and visual artist Dan Daly the standing plaster cast of the Apollo Sauroktonos and the broken plaster head of the goddess Athena from Cornell’s plaster cast collection have been annotated with resin mushrooms created by sculptor Rhonda Weppler. The video piece, said Platt, upends the “gendered play of gazes” of Western viewers. Other artists in the exhibit include Kyle Staver, recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Purchase Prize WonJung Choi, a Korean artist whose works have been exhibited nationally and internationally and Christina West, associate professor of art at Georgia State University, whose video installation “Wounded Warrior” features a naked male model struggling to recreate a sculpted figure from a Greek temple pediment. “In recent years,” she writes, “my artwork has been following a complex visual trail of architecture and figurative/representational elements.Caryatids and canephorae are, in many ways, the visual summation of human life and women’s fundamental role in supporting it.”
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Virginia Maksymowicz, a noted mixed-media installation artist, contributed an excerpt from her series “Comparisons,” in which she overlays images of women on silk textiles. the manner that mushrooms thrive in that which has deteriorated – a transformation and revitalization.” “Altering these idealized, ‘perfect’ bodies which have been marred and broken,” wrote Weppler, “the additions suggest. In another section of the folly, a broken plaster head of the goddess Athena lies face down as Weppler’s mushrooms grow from its damaged interior. Within the folly stands a headless, armless plaster cast of the Apollo Sauroktonos, annotated with resin mushrooms created by New York City sculptor Rhonda Weppler. The centerpiece of the exhibition features several works placed within “Follies Folly,” a synthesis of architectural and theatrical follies created by Brooklyn-based scenic designer and visual artist Dan Daly. ’22 (College of Architecture, Art, and Planning), aim to draw the public into conversation “about the history, problematics and mutability of the ‘Western canon.’” The curators, Platt and David Nasca, M.F.A. The exhibition displays selections from Cornell’s plaster cast collection of Greco-Roman sculptures alongside – and sometimes within – contemporary artists’ responses to cast culture and classical art. The artworks are part of the “Sculpture Shoppe” exhibition, temporarily housed inside a former retail clothing store. “Banfield’s sculpted critique of the White ideal contrasts with the classical cast’s embodiment of the Western canon.” “The two plaster casts are in dialogue with each other,” said Verity Platt, associate professor of classics and history of art and visual studies in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S). The other is of a male warrior’s dramatic face above a roaring lion “Rising Warrior Within” is by contemporary Black artist Sherwin Banfield. One depicts an ancient Greek athlete holding a discus.
Two sculptures peer out from among the rows of empty storefronts in the Ithaca Mall.
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