The Ambiguous Lightness of Being

In an homage to Milan Kundera, the Diana Lowenstein Gallery in the Wynwood neighborhood of Miami has mounted an extraordinary exhibition of works of 12 artists, who have produced sculptures and mixed media that explore the dimensions of lightness and weight. More than 14 years in the making, the exhibition was curated by Ombretta Argó Andruff, whose efforts here were triggered by a rereading of Kundera’s masterwork, The Unbearable Lightness of Being. In the 1984 classic novel, Kundera writes: “The heaviest of burdens crushes us, we sink beneath it, it pins us to the ground. But in love poetry of … Read Post