Media Alert: From Burning Man to Cornell Art Museum; Meet Artist Claudia La Bianca of Miami, Florida
The Delray Beach Downtown Development Authority (DDA) is hosting a “Meet the Artist” talk and Q&A session at Cornell Art Museum in Delray Beach featuring Claudia La Bianca of Miami, Florida. The event takes place during Delray Beach’s First Friday Art Walk on October 6. Claudia’s installation, “Kintsugi: The Art of Healing,” which made its debut at Burning Man 2022, is part of the Art Immersive Exhibition on view at the Cornell Art Museum through January 21, 2024.
WHEN: Friday, October 6, 2023, 6 to 9 p.m. Artist will speak at 7 p.m. followed by Q&A session.
WHERE: Cornell Art Museum, 51 N. Swinton Avenue, Delray Beach, FL 33444. Parking available at Old School Square garage.
WHO: Artist Claudia La Bianca of Miami, Florida. https://claudialabianca.com/about-1
DETAILS: The Art of Healing installation has traveled extensively, picking up some wonderful travel dust along the way. It was first revealed at Burning Man in 2022 and was meant as a healing vessel from the Playa. Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with lacquer powdered gold. As a philosophy, it treats breakage and repair as an art form. A repaired piece shows the scars and history of an object, highlighting what it has survived and overcome rather than disguising a presumed flaw.
The Kintsugi installation is comprised of a large rotating Broken Heart Sculpture with gold-colored fissures surrounded by Whimsical Trees and heart shapes containing messages from a spiritual world, the universe. According to the artist, “With the global pandemic and global conflict, loss of life and love, guilt, shame and so much suffering, we all came away a bit broken. It is time to heal. While walls can protect, they cannot heal a broken heart. When the time is right to heal, like the ancient Japanese art, we turn to nature.”
Photos of “Kintsugi: The Art of Healing” courtesy of the Delray Beach DDA:
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/l79eq9evt4ddgp1leziej/h?rlkey=7wmvue0lvmc7kil608a3z5kd1&dl=0
For a full list of events happening at the Cornell Art Museum, please visit https://delrayoldschoolsquare.com/cornell or call 561-654-2220.
