The Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA) series of contemporary art from around the globe restarts today with an exhibition that brings 10,000 solar eclipses to Salt Lake City.

 

salt 13: Katie Paterson, on view October 27, 2017 through May 20, 2018, presents recent works from the Scottish artist, whose explorations of space and time often use technology to bring together the commonplace and the cosmic. Paterson’s exhibition is the thirteenth in the UMFA’s salt series of contemporary art and the first since the newly remodeled Museum reopened in late August.

 

The literal centerpiece of Paterson’s show is Totality (2016), a large, rotating ball covered with approximately 10,000 images of historic solar eclipses printed on tiny squares of mirror. The images, recorded by mankind at locations across the planet, span hundreds of years from drawings made in the eighteenth century to early photographs taken in the nineteenth century to the most advanced telescopic images generated today.

 

For details and upcoming events, please visit https://umfa.utah.edu/salt/katie-paterson.