Carl Zimmerman: Landmarks of Industrial Britain
Organized by Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. June 10, 2006 to July 30, 2006, at Central Gallery.
Additional Information
Other associated events: Opening reception, Saturday, June 10, 5:30 pm
Landmarks of Industrial Britain is the second series of images developed as part of an ongoing project by artist Carl Zimmerman, to photograph imaginary buildings of massive scale, sublime desolation and utopian, authoritarian aesthetics. Developed consecutively over more than a ten-year period, this series is based upon photographs of scale maquettes that the artist has constructed in his Cape Breton studio. The effect is one of persuasive illusion, convincing the viewer that he or she is seeing something that does or did exist as a built architecture, even while the evidence of the image cannot remain credible in the face of a critical examination. Landmarks of Industrial Britain proposes an alternative history of the 19th century, one in which the workers' state imagined by Marx and Engels emerged, as they believed it was likely to do, in the most advanced industrial nation of their time: England. These buildings could not exist; yet our desire that they should, seduces us into believing in them. Robin Metcalfe, 2006 The exhibition is co-produced by the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia and Dunlop Art Gallery.
Carl Zimmerman, Landmarks of Industrial Britain (Installation View), 2006.
When
2006, Jul 30 2006 - All day
Where
Dunlop Central Gallery,
Interest
Past