Gabriela Bettini

Gabriela Bettini

Sample of American Birds II, 2021

Oil on linen. 200 × 150 cm.
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Inspired by the cabinets of natural curiosities of the museums' eighteenth and nineteenth century culture, this series of paintings (and others still in process) recreates a large number of foreign specimens and exotic nature carried out by traveling artists and, at the same time , emulates the collecting and archiving of embalmed specimens in natural history museums for the cataloging of a fauna eminently coming from the colonies, part of which is already extinct.
Playing at accumulation to refer to the great collections of botany, entomology and zoology in the natural science museums of the main North Atlantic capitals, the strategy of this project is to demonstrate a museum logic that, responding to the instrumental reason to classify life, it has contributed to cataloging and organizing nature in vast archives available for European knowledge, even at the cost of the extinction of many of the species they harbor.
The paintings recreate the paintings of the same title, carried out by Buenaventura José Guiol (circa 1770 - 1780).

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