{"product_id":"cura-s-garden-ben-thorp-brown","title":"Cura’s Garden Ben Thorp Brown","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn 2023, American artist Ben Thorp Brown opened Cura’s Garden, a long-term, immersive exhibition set in the medieval garden of Kunsthal Gent, a former Carmelite monastery. Expanding on the Roman myth of Cura, the project brings together a theatrical assortment of trees and other flora, fog, sculpture, and sound—elements that cohere into a dense, indeterminate sensorial experience. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis richly illustrated volume, organized around the seasons, features vivid documentation across two years of the garden’s young life alongside linocut botanical prints by the artist’s mother, Cary Thorp Brown.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNew essays by Laura McLean-Ferris, Laurie Cluitmans, Robert Wiesenberger explore the conceptual, formal, art historical, and affective valences of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCura’s Garden\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and a roundtable conversation between Brown and Laura Herman, Jan Minne, and Valentijn Goethals considers the history and development of the project, from the artist’s 2019 film \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eCura\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, a precursor to the garden, through present concerns around the maintenance and unfolding nature of this site-specific work.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53013874344245,"sku":"9781941753941","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0739\/4289\/2853\/files\/Cura_sGarden_Cover_Web.webp?v=1781815858","url":"https:\/\/researchdevstore.myshopify.com\/products\/cura-s-garden-ben-thorp-brown","provider":"Research \u0026 Development Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}