Insect
InsectCategory: Selected Recent Paintings by Chris Gollon
Artist: Chris Gollon
Subject: Being Human
Date of Work: Jan-March
Year of Work: 2009
Media: acrylic on canvas
Size: 48" x 36"
£5,500 (including frame). This painting was produced by Chris Gollon while he was a Fellow and First Artist in Residence at the Institute of Advanced Study, University of Durham (Jan - Mar 2009). It forms part of the exhibition 'Being Human', which is accompanied by a full colour catalogue, with texts by the other Fellows and by art historian Tamsin Pickeral.
"The radical dislocation of humanness is a constant refrain in the series painted in Durham, straying deep into asking about the nature of animality. In the painting Beast it is clear that it can only mean the human. In Insect, the last animal still standing after the apocalypse – as tall as a human and looking out in the way that the last human survivor might, is the praying mantis, poised to venture into the forsaken landscape, perhaps to make something of it. The loving couple locked in a gentle embrace full of care for the other are two dogs uncannily resembling human in form and poise, yet also unmistakably canines, and so only ever Almost Human." Extract from catalogue text by Ash Amin.
Ash Amin is Professor of Geography and Executive Director of the Institute of Advanced Study at Durham University. He writes on the relationship between society and space in fields such as urbanism, economy, race and multiculturalism, and progressive politics. His most recent books include Cities (with Nigel Thrift, 2002, Polity), Architectures of Knowledge (with Patrick Cohendet, 2004, OUP), Thinking about Almost everything, (edited with Michael O’Neill, 2009, Profile), and The Social Economy (ed, Zed, 2009, in press).
BEING HUMAN catalogue (cover)
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