Patricia Cronin (CRF 2009) is the inaugural artist in the Tampa Museum of Art’s new biennial series Conversations with the Collection, bringing her signature strain of conceptual art to her full range of artistic processes and materials from ancient to contemporary.
Cronin has created Aphrodite Reimagined, which includes a commissioned monumental outdoor sculpture of Aphrodite inspired by a life size 1st-century AD fragmentary marble torso of the goddess of love and beauty in the Museum’s collection. Cronin’s sculpture re-envisions the statue as a “complete” sculpture with a stone torso and translucent head, arms, and legs. The sculpture invites viewers to reconsider the narrative of an ancient work heavily restored after its rediscovery, and acts as a metaphor for shifting certainties about human history.
Patricia Cronin, Aphrodite and the Lure of Antiquity:
Conversations with the Collection
August 16, 2018 – January 6, 2019
Tampa Museum of Art
Tampa, FL