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February Issue 2005
Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, SC, Features Photographic Exhibit of Inventory of Endangered American Architecture
The Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, SC, has launched its centennial anniversary year and the Winter 2005 Exhibition Program highlighting art and architecture with several exhibitions, including, Un dwelled: Photographs of Endangered Southern Architecture. On view through Apr. 17, 2005, Un dwelled presents forty provocative black-and-white photographs that both illustrate the dormant architecture of the American South and explore the significance of historic preservation in the context of "the ruin."
Working for more than a decade Gaston Ward Callum II (American, b. 1961) has photographed nearly 800 dilapidated buildings, residing primarily in eight southern states. With the aim to raise awareness of the desperate need for historic preservation in the American South, Callum's photographs of mystical and mesmerizing beauty convey each building's existence, history, condition and availability for study. The exhibition presents breathtaking images of South Carolina and Charleston featuring forgotten plantation mansions, slave cabins, mills, churches and farmhouses, all which engender the exhibition with a rich haunting appeal.
Callum is a native of Wilmington, NC, and the founder of Southland Historic Preservation, a non-profit preservation organization founded in 1997. Over the past seven years, many of the properties he has documented have been dismantled and moved; others have undergone or are currently undergoing preservation; and still others remain abandoned or have been destroyed. Callum's photographs present an exquisite photographic inventory of endangered early American architecture, emphasizing the significant architectual legacy of the American South and the importance of preserving such historical architecture before time, weather or neglect renders them unsalvageable.
The exhibition is made possible through the generous support of Wachovia. Media support is provided by Kirkman Broadcasting, radio station 1450 AM and The Little Black Book for Every Busy Woman.
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Gallery listings, call the Museum at 843/722-2706 or at (www.gibbesmuesum.org).
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