‘Calumny’

DATE: 2007
MEDIA: smell, light, motors.

In ‘Calumny’ Maciá has used the sense of smell to re-interpret the eponymous lost painting by the fourth century Greek artist Apelles, a work recounted in Leon Battista Alberti’s master treatise ‘On Painting’. Specially created scents from Holland, made in collaboration with perfumer Ricardo Moya, waft through the gallery, emanating from five swinging pendulums. The term calumny refers to an invented, and malicious, statement intended to damage either the reputations of people or objects: in Maciá’s ‘Calumny an equivalent experience in smell to the characters referred to in Alberti’s account is created.

Presented at
Musee D’Art De Joliette Quebec, 2008
Sheffield Museum, UK, 2007
Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, 2007
Fri-Art, Fribourg, Switzerland, 2007