Art Exhibit | Ario Elami: Numinous Altars | March 12 to April 12
- Courthouse Gallery 1 Amherst Street Lake George, NY, 12845 United States (map)
Ario Elami: Numinous Altars at Courthouse Gallery in Lake George
Ario Elami — Temple to a Fungal Spirit, Colored pencil, pen, and watercolor on paper, 10 1/4″ x 13 7/8″. All photos courtesy of the Courthouse Gallery in Lake George Village.
The Courthouse Gallery in Lake George Village presents a stunning exhibit by Ario Elami. Entitled Numinous Altars spotlights the mysterious, supernatural, spiritual, awe-inspiring, and perhaps holy, presented. The term ”altar,” as in early forms of architecture, refers to platforms used as the focus for a religious ritual, often for making offerings to a deity.
World Machine III, Colored Pencil, pen,and watercolor on paper, 15″ x 11 1/4″
Ario Elami is a graduate of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts’ graduate program in Boston, MA. Elami works exclusively on paper in an often limited palette, with the resulting works resembling prints or bookplates.
The images appear timeless, as if found from a remote past in a secret library. Each piece resembles anthropological or archeological drawings made to document temples, palaces, sacrificial sites, or necropolises found in jungles and not fully understood by their discoverers.
Elami, depicting undefined architectural sites of relics or ruins, allows us to dream of sacred and profane uses to explore the tension between human design and nature on the verge of reclaiming its primacy. Elami’s latest art has developed with an understanding of the earliest architecture as numinous altars and a perception of nature as a roiling mass of aggressive life, perpetuating itself through overabundance.
In this vision, architecture manifested out of violent, spiritual rituals, externalizing what is internal. Elami sees architecture, revitalized with its primitive and mythopoeic qualities, as a portal back to a cosmos overflowing with meaning and mystery.
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