Arcade Project Curatorial is pleased to present
Curated by Ruben Natal-San Miguel
May 5 – July 3, 2020
“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.”
– Pablo Neruda
COVID-19 has threatened our livelihoods: employment, health, and human social contact, creating an atmosphere of isolation, seclusion and desolation. The situation became critical at a time when we were ready to break out of winter into the rejuvenation, renewal, beauty, color and flora – the promises of spring. The virus has already taken thousands of lives, among them important and key figures in the art world.
Ruben Natal-San Miguel has organized a series of online exhibitions that will provide help to organizations and artists: a sincere and genuine collaboration that will become a celebration of the season. Using the word “spring” in the titles of the four curated exhibitions, each one showcases the beauty created by artists as a way to escape this cruel reality that we are all experiencing and provide an outlet for collectors to support their favorite artists and discover new ones at different price levels.
SPRING FORWARD is an online exhibition of photography and mixed-media artworks presented by Arcade Project and curated by Ruben Natal-San Miguel. Inspired by Donna Summer’s song “Spring Affair” from her album Four Seasons of Love, the exhibition combines the optimism of disco with a celebration of springtime’s sense of rebirth, renewal, and hope for the future.
We would like to thank Kevin Darmanie for creating the SPRING FORWARD mixtape. Listen on SoundCloud.
Arcade Project Curatorial is now on Instagram at @arcadeproject_curatorial. The publication is still @apzine.
Furthermore, we encourage you to view the three additional exhibitions of Ruben Natal-San Miguel’s spring curatorial series:
“Spring Fever” | Treat Gallery | (@treatgallery)
“A Light Exists in Spring” | Gallery 52 | (@gallery52)
“Spring Affair” | The Center for Photography at Woodstock | (@cpwwpc)
Download a PDF of the press release here.