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Joel-Peter Witkin & Benedetta Bonichi at Keith de Lellis
From the website: Notes from Joel Peter-Witkin's journal give testimony to this artistic enterprise: "The artist is a shaman, priest, and mystic, capable of taking on the higher order of dialogue between the invisible and the visible... . I'm a conduit... . Ideas come through me. Art that doesn't point toward some ideal forever beyond the senses isn't art at all... . If my work is theatre, contrivance, voyeurism, darkness, anger, love, it is all these things and more- it's me for better or worse- the marriage of the body to the spirit, the eye of the flesh to the glass eye of the camera." ("Joel-Peter Witkin 55" (2001) by Eugenia Parry)
From the website: Bonichi, on the other hand, creates a universe peopled with the unseen marvels of the human skeleton- her imagery marries science and art in an unexpected union. Utilizing the latest advances in x-ray technology and digital printmaking to create her mural-sized works, Bonichi captures the allure of primitive anatomical renderings in antiquarian medical textbooks.
