 Jasone Miranda-Bilbao: Land Formation, 2000 clay and sand, 80 x 80 x 70 cm (approx.) Great Piece of Turf Jasone Miranda-Bilbao, Phil Coy, Dalziel + Scullion, Peter Dukes, Sophie Lascelles, Denis Masi, Kate Scrivener, Jem Southam, Finlay Taylor, Sarah Woodfine Great Piece of Turf presents ten artists whose work is concerned with landscape and natural history. This exhibition brings together work looking at the detail of matter trodden under foot to grand mountain landscapes, from domesticated animals to rarely observed creatures of the deep oceans. The pieces investigate ideas ranging from how the visions of the world are changed through technical advances to the continued importance of taxonomic study to order the world around us. Dealing with images and ideas of landscape and natural history at present, the works cannot be divorced from current environmental issues, evolutionary concepts and developments across the sciences. As these artists show, with a gritty integrity, an idealised notion of nature (a lost paradise) is still a concern but these re-presentations question whether this can or ever exists. The title Great Piece of Turf is taken from the Dürer watercolour of 1503, "Das Grosse Rasenstück". Curated by Finlay Taylor. Ausstellungsdauer: 31.1. - 9.3.2003 Öffnungszeiten: Fr-Su 2 - 6 pm (other times by appointment) Danielle Arnaud Gallery contemporary art 123 Kennington Road GB-London SE11 6SF Telefon/Fax +44 (0) 20 7 735 82 92 E-Mail info@daniellearnaud.com www.daniellearnaud.com |
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