Martians are taking over the side of the Gardner Museum in a new mural
The piece will be on view starting June 28.
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is getting an out-of-this-world mural on the building’s façade, thanks to Italian artist Maurizio Cannavacciuolo.
Cannavacciuolo’s sci-fi installation depicts the story of the colonization of the Earth by Martians told by a “many-armed teacher, who is the product of human-Martian interbreeding,” according to a release. The piece features five vignettes and includes a scene set inside a fictional performance hall at the Gardner Museum.
This is the eighth temporary, site-specific work by an artist-in-residence at the Gardner Museum. Rachel Perry’s What Do You Really Want has hung on the side of the museum since January and will come down this June.
Cannavacciuolo’s A Lecture on Martian History will be on view from June 28 through January 9, 2017.
Maurizio Cannavacciulo’s mural at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
A Lecture on Martian History was inspired in part by Cannavacciuolo’s time living in and traveling through Asia, particularly India and Thailand. He also drew on multicultural influences by taking notes from Japan’s Edo textiles and Havana’s Cuban tiles.
Cannavacciuolo had an exhibition at the Gardner in 2004 called TV Dinner, which featured multilayered drawings, paintings, and photographs woven together as a tapestry that commented on “the act of choice,” according to the Museum.
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