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Volker Eichelmann 'On Peacock Island'
Volker EichelmannEmily LaBarge
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Featuring Works by Stephen Tennant, 28 January to 23 April 2017, Focal Point Gallery Southend-on-Sea
出版Focal Point Gallery, 2017
ISBN19071852089781907185205
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=o5cvswEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Focal Point Gallery is pleased to present 'On Peacock Island', the first major solo exhibition of the German artist Volker Eichelmann. The exhibition features a series of new work by the artist, incorporating a an arrangement of drawings by Stephen Tennant (1906-1987), one of the most prominent of the 'Bright Young Things' - an influential young and flamboyant group of the 1920s upper class society. Making connections with the Victorian gardens on Southend's seafront cliffs 'On Peacock Island' presents work reflecting the artist's pre-occupation with art and design practices rooted in the 18th century, which are exemplified in folly architecture - an ornamental building with little or no practical purpose, often built to resemble a Gothic or Classical ruin. After their heyday in the 18th century follies became increasingly the preserve of amateurs realising their own idiosyncratic architectural fantasies at the expense of disproportionate amounts of time and money. For the exhibition 'On Peacock Island' Eichelmann has produced works that draw on his particular fascination with the role water features have played in the conception of these structures. The main gallery's walls are covered by prints showing details of a stone relief of running water which was designed by André Le Nôtre for the gardens of the Palace of Versailles. Following the idea of the folly, as the embodiment of the exuberant and ultimately foolish undertaking, Eichelmann has installed a working cascade in the gallery's foyer cabinets and a truncated column pasted with prints depicting details from architectural features found in the City of London. Further representations of water and its reflective qualities feature prominently on the large silver panels in the main gallery, as cut-up snippets in the collage displayed throughout the exhibition and in the photo-collage work in the window gallery. -- https://www.fpg.org.uk/exhibition/on-peacock-island/