"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library" Jorge Luis Borges
In the last series of photographs of unusual books, and their hidden contents Abelardo Morell had made an elegant visual tribute to the printed word . Wavy, water damaged books that take on sculptural forms, cliff-like dictionaries of an imperceptible scale, solid shiny spines that belie their many-leafed composite makeup, are illustrated with tactile quality. A clothbound volume with hidden, inky secrets has never looked so alluring.
Morell emigrated from Cuba to New York City in 1963 at the age of 15. He lives in Massachusetts with his wife and son and teaches Fine Art Photography at the Massachusetts College of Art. His work has been shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York; the Victoria & Albert Museum in London; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; The Philips Collection, Washington DC and recently at the Frost Art Museum in Florida.