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Exhibit Coffee
A new exhibit at the Moore College of Art and Design is creating a buzz, and more.
Executive director of the Galleries at Moore, said she gets headaches if she lingers too long in Brazilian artist Artur Bario's Coffee Immersion 101 exhibit.
Visitors can smell the coffee, see it, walk barefoot through it and sit on a couch covered in it. Bario, 61, spread nearly three-quarters of a ton of roasted, ground espresso around a dimly lit, cavelike 1,800-square-foot room with Portuguese phrases scrawled on the walls.
The exhibit is intended to be "overwhelming to the senses and prompt an acute visceral reaction in the viewer," the college says.
"We would smell like burning coffee for a while and we didn't know what it was," fashion design and textiles major Hannah Brandt said. "Then the exhibit opened."
It is the first exhibit in North America for Bario, who has returned to Brazil.
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