Lasse Antonsen: Wind-up Butterflies, Dead Leaf Insects, and Other Metaphors

In this exhibition the artist, created an imaginative display of a wide variety of natural history and art objects. Antonsen incorporates insects in his own artwork in order to create metaphorical and ethical reflections on culture and time. Antonsen is fascinated by the symbolic and metaphorical use of insects by poets, comic book artists and film makers, and the exhibition will spotlight the role butterflies and other insects play in contemporary literature and art.

Lasse Antonsen is an artist, art historian, and curator, who was born in Denmark and studied art and art history in Denmark as well as the US. He has an MA in art history from Tufts University.

This exhibition is up through September 2013.