{"id":5426,"date":"2014-03-17T18:50:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T17:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/?p=5426"},"modified":"2015-07-18T10:03:12","modified_gmt":"2015-07-18T08:03:12","slug":"charles-harlan-at-venus-over-manhattan-could-the-essence-of-beauty-lie-in-the-way-human-beings-protect-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/03\/17\/charles-harlan-at-venus-over-manhattan-could-the-essence-of-beauty-lie-in-the-way-human-beings-protect-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Harlan at Venus over Manhattan: is the essence of beauty in the way human beings protect it?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-5426 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/03\/17\/charles-harlan-at-venus-over-manhattan-could-the-essence-of-beauty-lie-in-the-way-human-beings-protect-it\/dscn8262\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DSCN8262.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-5427\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-5427'>\n\t\t\t\tCharles Harlan, Ishtar, installation view at Venus Over Manhattan.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/03\/17\/charles-harlan-at-venus-over-manhattan-could-the-essence-of-beauty-lie-in-the-way-human-beings-protect-it\/dscn8263\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"113\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DSCN8263.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Charles Harlan, Ishtar, installation view at Venus Over Manhattan.\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-5428\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-5428'>\n\t\t\t\tCharles Harlan, Ishtar, installation view at Venus Over Manhattan.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/03\/17\/charles-harlan-at-venus-over-manhattan-could-the-essence-of-beauty-lie-in-the-way-human-beings-protect-it\/dscn8264\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"113\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DSCN8264.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Charles Harlan, Ishtar, installation view at Venus Over Manhattan.\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-5429\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-5429'>\n\t\t\t\tCharles Harlan, Ishtar, installation view at Venus Over Manhattan.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/03\/17\/charles-harlan-at-venus-over-manhattan-could-the-essence-of-beauty-lie-in-the-way-human-beings-protect-it\/dscn8266\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"113\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DSCN8266.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Charles Harlan, Ishtar, installation view at Venus Over Manhattan.\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-5430\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-5430'>\n\t\t\t\tCharles Harlan, Ishtar, installation view at Venus Over Manhattan.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>There are only ten days left to visit the solo show by <a href=\"http:\/\/charlesharlan.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Charles Harlan<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/venusovermanhattan.com\/exhibition\/charles-harlan-ishtar\" target=\"_blank\">Venus Over Manhattan<\/a>, in New York, and we warmly recommend to do it, especially if you love masters of the Seventies such as Walter De Maria or Carl Andre, or certain established contemporary artists like Carol Bove or Oscar Tuazon.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ishtar on arriving at the gate of the land of no return<\/p>\n<p>To the gate keeper thus addressed herself:<\/p>\n<p>Gate keeper, ho, open thy gate<br \/>\nOpen thy gate that I may enter<\/p>\n<p>If thou openest not the gate to let me enter I will break the door<\/p>\n<p>I will wrench the lock, I will smash the doorposts, I will force the doors<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This passage from the book titled \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacred-texts.com\/ane\/ishtar.htm\" target=\"_blank\">The Descent of the Goddess Ishtar Into the Lower World<\/a>\u201d is the key Harlan has given to the visitor for reading the long metallic wall by which the gallery&#8217;s main space has been enclosed, leaving only a narrow corridor to walk around. A 10 foot roll-down gate is in front of the wall, to underline the idea of something that is closed. Clearly Ishtar \u2013 the East Semitic Akkadian, Assyrian and Babylonian goddess of fertility, love, sex and war \u2013 refers to the Roman Venus, whom the gallery is dedicated yo. Do we need anything else to ponder over how beauty is related to the idea of inaccessibility? And, could the essence of beauty lie in the way human beings protect it as the artist seem indeed to suggest it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are only ten days left to visit the solo show by Charles Harlan at Venus Over Manhattan, in New York, and we warmly recommend to do it, especially if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5427,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1793],"tags":[1653],"class_list":["post-5426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-to-be-discovered","tag-charles-harlan"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}