Hell, Heaven and Hope: A Journey through life and the afterlife with Dante is now open to the public in the Palace Green Galleries at Durham. The exhibition features a fabulous range of copies of Dante’s works, as well as contemporary artwork. Alexandra Carr’s Empyrean features as part of the section of Paradise. Completed as part of Alexandra’s Leverhulme Trust Artist in Residence programme, the sculpture represents the spheres of the medieval universe, drawing on Grosseteste and Dante: sculpting with light on the grandest scale in the creation of the universe.
The whole exhibition is a stunning insight into the creation of one of the world’s greatest poems, into curatorial practice, habits of collection, and artistic inspiration. Open until March, come and see it for yourselves!
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Hope I can get up to Durham before March to see this!