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Real Bodies
The Exhibition
The South Florida Science Center and Aquarium presents the fall blockbuster exhibit, Real Bodies: The Exhibition starting September 28th and running through April 11, 2021.
Appropriate for all ages, Real Bodies goes beyond skin deep to reveal the mysteries of human anatomy, exploring the body through physiology, culture and emotion. Visitors will tour real, preserved human bodies, digging deeper into what it means to be alive. Real Bodies takes visitors on a journey, asking them to explore who they are, where they come from and what they choose to do with the life and body they have. The bodies have been preserved using a process known as polymer impregnation, a relatively new method of preservation whereby bodily fluids are replaced by liquid plastic, which is then hardened to create a solid, durable anatomic specimen that will last indefinitely. Most impressively, the process leaves even the finest, most delicate tissue structure virtually intact, down to the microscopic sphere, making the process invaluable for medical study.
The exhibition pushes boundaries while blending art, science and emotion. When visitors explore different symptoms of the body, they will see the deeper connection between breathing, hunger, heart rhythm, love, motion and thought that makes each person unique.
The exhibit will also feature a COVID-19 component, encouraging visitors to learn more about the pandemic’s impact on the human body.
“We are thrilled to bring Real Bodies to Palm Beach County,” said Kate Arrizza, Science Center President and CEO. “We know our guests will love seeing the science beneath the skin and learning about human evolution through time. This is a rare opportunity to see the human body from the inside, which we hope will spark an interest in children to seek careers in science and medicine. The exhibit is timely with the COVID-19 pandemic, so we are excited to have this platform for learning.”
Admission to the South Florida Science Center and Aquarium during Real Bodies is $17.95 for adults, $13.95 for children ages 3 to 12 and $15.95 for seniors aged 60 and older. Science Center members and children under 3 are free. For more information call 561.832.1988 or visit www.sfsciencecenter.org.
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Philip Haas’
The Four Seasons
ON DISPLAY AT THE SOCIETY OF THE FOUR ARTS THROUGH DECEMBER 31
The Four Seasons, a group of sculptures by contemporary American artist and filmmaker Philip Haas, will be on display at The Society of the Four Arts this summer and fall as part of its 2020–2021 season of programs. Open to the public until December 31st, the exhibition will be installed in the Pannill Pavilion inside The Four Arts’ Philip Hulitar Sculpture Garden.
Haas’s sculptures are inspired by the paintings by the Italian Mannerist Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1526/1527–1593), in particular a series of The Four Seasons now dispersed between the Louvre, the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, and the Academia de San Fernando, Madrid. Arcimboldo, who was the court portraitist to the Habsburg Imperial Courts in Vienna and Prague for 25 years, painted The Four Seasons in 1563 and presented them to his patron Maximilian II on New Year’s Day in 1569. Hailed for their wit and artifice, the paintings were popular at court and solidified his reputation as the most modern painter of his time. Despite his renown, Arcimboldo faded into obscurity after his death, until the 20th Century, when the Surrealists (Salvador Dalí in particular) rediscovered his idiosyncratic and bizarre style. His legacy continues to influence contemporary artists like Haas today.
As in Arcimboldo’s paintings, the physical features of the four sculpted figures are rendered in botanical forms appropriate to each season. The Four Seasons acknowledge nature’s rhythmic cycles. As portraits of people, they also represent the natural aging process, from youth to old age. The three-foot high painted fiberglass sculptures are studies for large-scale versions (also painted fiberglass), 15 feet high.
Haas comments, “Whether I’m working in painting, sculpture, or film, what fascinates me is the idea of transformation. Through The Four Seasons, I am re-contextualizing the world of classical Renaissance portraiture using the transformative elements of scale, material, and dimensionality, thereby altering the viewer’s perspective.”
Haas gives viewers a fresh perspective by recreating what has until now been a two-dimensional experience — viewing Arcimboldo’s painted “portraits” — as a three-dimensional experience, giving us the opportunity to walk around the sculptures and see the subjects from all sides.
“The placement of the four sculptures within the Pannill Pavilion has a theatrical quality as the pavilion serves as the perfect ‘stage set’ for the portrait busts,” says Rebecca A. Dunham, Head of Fine Arts and Curator at The Four Arts. “The startling reconfiguration of the human head and shoulders through plant materials will delight visitors of all ages.”
Philip Rylands, President of The Society of the Four Arts, added: “With congratulations to Philip Haas, and gratitude for enabling the loan of these works, our intention, by bringing these works to Palm Beach, is also to offer our members and all visitors to the Garden a signal of joy, the triumph of nature, and optimism after the dark days of lockdown these past months.”
The presentation of The Four Seasons by Philip Haas in the Pannill Pavilion of The Society of the Four Arts has been made possible by the generosity of Kit Pannill.
For more information visit www.fourarts.org.
Loggerhead Marinelife Center Secures Two Million Dollar Matching Gift from Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation to Propel Expansion
In partnership with the Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation, Loggerhead Marinelife Center is proud to announce a two-million dollar-for-dollar matching gift towards their Waves of Progress campus expansion. This lifesaving matching gift will help the Center raise critical funds to deploy the world’s most advanced clean-water filtration system at a sea turtle hospital. The leading filtration system will provide quarantining, filtration, heating, and chilling for each individual hospital tank and patient regardless of water quality or environmental conditions.
Since opening its facility in 2007, the Center has treated and released thousands of threatened and endangered sea turtle patients back into the ocean. However, the current hospital water system does not provide inbound water filtration for its patients. Over the past decade, Florida’s coastal waters have suffered from dangerous levels of blue-green algae, high bacteria counts from watershed and the recurrence of deadly red tide.
The Center’s current water system cannot properly screen these toxins out of the hospital water, harming their patients’ chances for recovery. With its world-class mission of sea turtle and ocean conservation, the Center has worked with global water quality experts to blueprint, design, and install the world’s most advanced sea water filtration system ensuring its mission will move forward uninterrupted.
In addition to providing state-of-the-art patient protection and redundancy, the system will provide guests, students, and collaborators with an exciting immersive opportunity to see water filtration and hydrology in action. The Center’s new water quality ‘bunker’ will offer an exhibit-quality learning experience for students interested in water quality, technology, and engineering. The Center’s educators will use the water quality system as a ‘show site’ to its 90 plus global collaborators should other organizations want to replicate the system internationally.
"Sea turtles are the oceans canary in the coal mine. The health of our oceans and beaches go hand-in-hand with the health of our sea turtles," said Jack E. Lighton, LMC President and CEO. "Our Center’s mantra is, “The sea turtle tells us the health of the ocean and the ocean tells us the health of our planet.” This extraordinarily generous two-million-dollar matching gift will transform our Center’s lifesaving mission, expand our educational offerings, and help us put the keystone of fundraising in place for our expansion campaign. We are honored to work with the Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation to amplify our impact together and invite the community to join us in this dollar-for-dollar matching gift opportunity.”
The expansion will enable the Center to: double the sea turtle patient capacity; deploy a cutting-edge clean water filtration system; add in more than six times the amount of educational programming spaces; double the size of its research laboratory; debut a new marine life gallery, interactive exhibits, and a new auditorium; offer large-scale event and symposium venues for up to 400 guests and open a large outdoor ocean-view café.
The expansion will be complete in early 2021. For more information call 561.627.8280, ext. 100.