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| Mike Nelson |
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| The field of ruined and scarred plinths in La Cannibale (Parody Consumption and Institutional Critique) (2008) is created from walls that Nelson destroyed at the Hayward Gallery, London, for his installation To the Memory of HP Lovecraft. The visitor walked into the gallery to find empty white walls hacked and broken. Piles of plaster, paint and shredded wood were scattered across the floor. At the end of the exhibition the artist removed the wounded wooden panels from the walls and recycled them into plinths of varying volumes and sizes. Whatever forms they may have supported have disappeared. They have been shattered by a history we can only guess at and bear witness to the presence of a malign intelligence or a nameless anger. |
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Born 1967, Loughborough, United Kingdom; lives and works in London
Le Cannibale (Parody, Consumption and Institutional Critique), 2008
41 wood and MDF plinths, mixed media
Various dimensions, installation dimensions variable
Rennie Collection, Vancover
Photo: Singapore Art Museum
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