Selby Gardens' ‘Year of Photography’ to celebrate 'Flora Imaginaria'
Marie Selby Botanical Gardens will premiere a new exhibition this summer that celebrates the beauty and diversity of flowers through the art of contemporary photography.
"Flora Imaginaria: The Flower in Contemporary Photography" will display works by 49 internationally acclaimed photographers, many at the forefront of their field. The show, organized in partnership with the Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography, runs from July 16 through Sept. 25 at Selby Gardens’ Downtown Sarasota campus.
“We are excited to continue ‘The Year of Photography’ at Selby Gardens with another world premiere of contemporary art in dialogue with nature at our Downtown Sarasota campus,” said Jennifer O. Rominiecki, president and CEO of Selby Gardens. “Diverse images of flowers drawn from many different genres of photography will create a vibrant bouquet befitting our model as The Living Museum.”
The exhibition will include a total of 72 photographic prints, some installed amid the living plant collection along a shady path through the Gardens and others displayed inside the Museum of Botany & the Arts. Some of the photographers to be featured have specialized in flower imagery for many years, while others have done only one serious project or even taken just one or two pictures involving flowers.
Works by celebrated artists such as Pedro Almodóvar, Valérie Belin, Vik Muniz, Viviane Sassen, and Martin Schoeller will appear side by side with compelling photographs by emerging artists. Many of the images to be seen have not appeared previously in a major exhibition.
The exhibit is curated by William A. Ewing and Danaé Panchaud, an international team of photography experts. For more information, visit selby.org.
Submitted by Greg Luberecki
This article originally appeared on Sarasota Herald-Tribune: Selby Gardens staging new international exhibition 'Flora Imaginaria'
