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Goldenage

其他書名	Andrea Du Chatenier
出版	Mary Newton Gallery, 2010
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=LBd2ygAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋In Goldenage, artist Andrea du Chatenier has created a futuristic vision of a world where beauty is everything - and retail is the one and true therapy. In a scene of feminine desire and excess, handcarved-polystyrene figures of long-haired women luxuriate in the pleasures of consumerism. Du Chatenier's tableau includes beauties atop of white horses, a willowy replica of a Next Top Model hopeful and a voluptuous Venus of Willendorf who has relinquished her barefoot fertility goddess status for a pair of designer heels. In Greek and Roman mythology, the Golden Age is the first age of the world, an untroubled and prosperous era during which people lived in ideal, blissful happiness amidst nature. After an era of natural disasters, war and financial catastrophe, du Chatenier offers us a Golden Age, but as with all moments of idealized time, there is something not quite 'true' about her version. Goldenage is a confused tableau of figures drawn from different visual images and different eras. Undercutting the theme of consumer paradise is a feeling of mournfulness. The birds and butterflies are dead and the seemingly glamorous figures they surround are rendered not in precious materials but, low-cost polystyrene. The concept of woman as Nature, seen in classical images such as Daphne, is nicely undone when constructed in a "human-made" material, Du Chatenier says of her choice of polystyrene. "Coming from a sculptural background, I can't help but enjoy the irony of approaching the material as you would marble ... Unfortunately it's not biodegradable which means my sculptures will be around forever!"--The Big Idea website.