An exhibition curated by Open Arts instructor Peter Lucas will open on Monday, February 2nd at 6 PM.
The Last Hour of Summer/Arpoador: Sunday Evenings in Rio de Janeiro brings two striking visual portfolios into conversation for the first time.
In the early 1960s, the late amateur Sunday photographer Orizon Carneiro Muniz used a 4 x 5 medium format camera to shoot 5,000 black and white photographs, mostly of women on the famed beach of Ipanema.
In 2003, Peter Lucas found the Muniz archive at a flea market in Rio de Janeiro. Lucas wondered, “What would Muniz’s photos look like today?” Using a 6 x 7 camera to render a landscape perspective, Lucas also shot 5,000 photographs, only on Sundays, around the rocks of Arpoador, the same part of the beach that Muniz documented 50 years earlier.
The February 2nd opening will include remarks by the curator (7 p.m.) and a reception. RSVPs are requested.
This exhibition was made possible with support from the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and Espacio de Culturas.