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Caption: Slought Foundation Event Space, 2003
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Slought Foundation Event Space, 2003

"From Paradise to Paradise (2002)"
Featuring Osvaldo Romberg

Slought Foundation | Saturday, October 05, 2002; 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Free admission (Reservation required)

Organized by Aaron Levy
Film Premiers Series



Project Website: http://slought.org/content/11089/

"From Paradise to Paradise: A Hypertext Opera about Love" (2002) received its wold premier at the private opening of the new Slought Foundation facility, Philadelphia. Screened alongside an installation by the artist of props constructed for and employed in the movie.


Osvaldo Romberg, an internationally renowned artist, was born in Buenos Aires in 1938. He is currently a professor at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia. Select exhibition venues include: Kunsthistoriches Museum, Vienna; Kunstmuseum, Bonn; Ludwig Museum, Cologne; Sudo Museum, Tokyo; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; The Jewish Museum, New York; and the XLI Venice Biennial, Israel Pavilion. He recently curated shows on Faith at the Aldrich Museum and on Urbanism at White Box, New York. In 2001, he was the subject of a Slought Foundation conference at the University of Pennsylvania, archived online alongside a survey of his work, as well as a volume of critical essays, Searching for Romberg, edited by Aaron Levy (Philadelphia: Slought Books, 2001).