Coordinate of Memory

Aby Moritz Warburg (June 13, 1866 – October 26, 1929) was a German art historian and cultural theorist.

 

In December 1927, Warburg started to compose a work in the form of a picture atlas named Mnemosyne. It consisted of 40 wooden panels covered with black cloth, on which were pinned nearly 1,000 pictures from books, magazines, newspapers and other daily life sources. These pictures were arranged according to different themes.

 

There were no captions and only a few texts in the atlas. "Warburg certainly hoped that the beholder would respond with the same intensity to the images of passion or of suffering, of mental confusion or of serenity, as he had done in his work.

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Coordinates of Memory has been taken from one the themes of Mnemosyne Atlas. Puri Art  Gallery’s aim is to emulate the same sense of collaging tenderness with a present touch. The aesthetics of heirloomed memory inhabit at the core of our exhibiting artists, the White Cube  serves as a vessel for the collage