Artist Marianne Mueller builds a ‘home’ in Salem
Artist Marianne Mueller builds a ‘home’ in Salem
In today’s global village, new homes are created every day as people travel, relocate and emigrate for professional, familial and personal reasons. Juxtaposing these times, places and influences, Swiss artist Marianne Mueller has also built a new “home,” not in Switzerland but in Salem, Massachusetts. And swissnex Boston played a vital role in bringing home this fantastic work of art.
Towering inside the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM), a soaring installation combining museum artifacts and the artist’s personal archive of photographs is titled “Any House is a Home.” swissnex Boston, connecting the dots in art and science, proudly co-sponsored its preview on Wednesday, March 23, 2011.
Engaging some of the central issues raised in the overall collection at the PEM, Mueller’s exhibition also offers an outstanding opportunity to showcase her own work. It allows the viewer to reinterpret and reimaging American decorative art and architecture.
Deputy Consul and Project Manager for the Arts, Culture and Society Andreas Rufer attended the opening, once more bridging the cross-continental exchange between Switzerland and New England.
The exhibition opened for public viewing on March 26 and runs until December 31 at the PEM in Salem, MA.
To read the great article on the exhibition in the Boston Globe of April 5, 2011, click here.
