London-based artist Gayle Chong Kwan has created a fantasy landscape out of used plastic food packaging for an exhibition in London.
The exhibition, called Atlantis, is commissioned by Arts Co.
Atlantis is at 29 Thurloe Place, SW7 until 6 December.
The exhibition also features photographs of previous incarnations of Atlantis completed by the artist.
The following text is from Gayle Chong Kwan:
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Arts Co and Pia Getty are pleased to present an exhibition by artist Gayle Chong Kwan.
Atlantis is an enormous mythical landscape, a city created and carved out of semi-opaque, used, plastic food packaging, collected from people who live in London and covering the entire exhibition space.
The Atlantis installation will be accompanied by large-scale photographs exploring this enchanting and uncanny city of plastic.
Atlantis is generously supported by Brompton Estates.
ATLANTIS
29 Thurloe Place, SW7 2HQ
12th November - 6th December
haygarth’s better!
that’s the fantasy landscape? i really feel like this would only come close to working if she took it considerably further out. it seems so half-hearted. there’s no strangeness to it and the scale is disappointing.
What Jed said.
The execution just isn’t up to the idea…which itself isn’t really groundbreaking to begin with. Something like this needs real craft, major scale and hyper-attention to detail. This almost seems sloppy. Compare with Ai Wei Wei’s stacked cloth, John Brisbee’s sculpture, or any of Tara Donovan’s work…and this comes off tepid at best.
http://images.google.com/images?rlz=1C1CHMI_en-USUS299US303&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=John%20Bisbee&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi
http://images.google.com/images?rlz=1C1CHMI_en-USUS299US303&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=tara%20donovan&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi
http://images.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&rlz=1C1CHMI_en-USUS299US303&q=ai+wei+wei+cloth&btnG=Search+Images
i highly recomend antony gromly
whos that japanese guy who did the city all out of silver stainless kitchen equip? and another one using industrial drill bits? his is way cooler, this looks too 3rd year art school to me.