 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
 Remembrance Part I Paul Nugent 08 October 2009 - 16 October 2009 Just as these paintings were slow to conceive and create, they necessitate measured, contemplative readings. References include the chapel at the Salpêtrière – the Paris prison, poorhouse and asylum turned teaching hospital – as well as one of its illustrious physicians (and a father of neurology) Jean-Martin Charcot: the authority the medical profession wielded in the nineteenth century being analogous to that of the church. Kerava Art Museum director said of the work, that “Nugent speaks about the quiet disintegration of historical knowledge, meaningful places and religious symbols into mere memories”. |
