Alter Ego

A new exhibition, part of the Brontë Parsonage Museum Contemporary Arts Programme, has opened this weekend:

Alter Ego: Victor Buta

Friday 6 February to Saturday 31 March,
Brontë Parsonage Museum

Victor Buta has produced a series of abstract paintings based on Brontë handwriting and signatures. The paintings emerge from an interest in signatures of questionable authenticity; those invented or used in a conscious effort to mask or change identity. Alter Ego explores the Brontës' writing pseudonyms of Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell, and the origins of the Brontë surname. Numerous items from the museum collection, including the Brontës' miniature books and handwritten correspondence, have been used as source material.

Victor Buta is a Haworth based artist who has developed a number of projects and exhibitions based on signatures, including a series of paintings using doctors' signatures, now in the permanent collection of the NHS Hospital Teaching Trust. He has been exhibiting in solo and group shows for twenty-five years, teaches art to a variety of groups and has been involved in numerous large-scale community art projects.

Categories: Art-Exhibitions, Brontë Parsonage Museum