About this Event
Join us at the Getty Center for a public walk-through and conversation led by Harmonia Rosales. This special program offers a rare opportunity to gain deeper insight into the works on view directly from the artist herself.
The tour begins at 1:30 pm for a duration of approximately one hour. Visitors are invited to engage in discussion, ask questions, and explore the themes behind our collective beginnings together.
About Beginnings Exhibition
The exhibition Beginnings: The Story of Creation in the Middle Ages includes medieval artworks that visualize the Biblical creation of Earth, accompanied by recent paintings by Harmonia Rosales, a nationally renowned Afro-Cuban American artist based in Los Angeles. Rosales explores the universal themes of life, death, and rebirth through a compelling and often unexpected recasting of historic iconography, including the addition of Black figures and West African spirituality.
Parking Information
On-site parking is available for all reservation holders at $25 per vehicle. Please proceed to the parking entrance at: N Sepulveda Blvd & Getty Center Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90049.
About Harmonia Rosales
Since the genesis of her career, Harmonia Rosales’s main artistic concern has focused on Black female empowerment in Western culture, depicting and honoring the African diaspora.
As a young girl, the impeccable skill and composition of the Renaissance masters' fascinated her but the depiction of white hierarchy and the idealization of subordinate women, often falling under Eurocentric notions of beauty, dissuaded her passion. Thus, her message is not to create an ideal or simply to copy, but rather to create a sense of harmony between the struggling dichotomies.
The artist is informed by the ebb and flow of contemporary society where she seeks to reimagine new forms of aesthetic beauty, snuggled somewhere between pure love and ideological counter-hegemony.
Nourished by her multicultural Afro-Cuban background, the Black female subjects in Rosales’s paintings are in memory of her ancestors and function as a way to heal and promote self-love. Her figures are astounding in the hues of their skin. The dark cast of her subjects is specifically meant to separate its viewer from physical reality and transport them to a world that largely transcends the two-dimensional canvas. In this universe, the Orishas represent physical manifestations of life’s healing tools. She asks that one sets aside any religious associations and focus on the historical meaning of each painting. These universal elements empower and provoke analysis and communication.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The Getty, 1200 Getty Center Drive, Los Angeles, United States
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