The Telegram & Gazette, MetroWest Daily News, and Worcester Magazine recently wrote about “Curalium,” a curving, floating sculpture that stretches nearly 50 feet down the middle of St. Joseph Memorial Chapel at the College of the Holy Cross.
College officials are hoping that the juxtaposition of the chapel’s traditional, Italian Renaissance-inspired interior and the contemporary sculpture made of hundreds of sheets of shorn fiberglass fabric will promote a dialogue between the worlds of faith and contemporary art.
“We want to begin a conversation about what is sacred, what the Holy means, and where we find it,” said Thomas Landy, director of Holy Cross’ Center for Religion, Ethics, and Culture, which is cosponsoring the exhibition. “We believe that [the artist’s] vision will bring people to see and appreciate an amazing sacred place in a new way,” he told the Telegram & Gazette.
"People seeing it for the first time might be a little shocked and awestruck," Taylor Blackwell, a junior philosophy and studio arts major who helped install the work, told the MetroWest Daily News. He was particularly struck by the way the sculpture "seemed to melt away and shed material as it approached the church altar."
The installation will be displayed until May 16.
- Read the Telegram & Gazette article (March 25, 2011)
- Read the MetroWest Daily News article (April 3, 2011)
- Read the Worcester Magazine article (April 13, 2011)
This "Holy Cross in the News" item by Christine McEnery '11.
