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Current Exhibition |
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FISH AND BIRD : new works on paper and panel
by Paul Morstad
From July 10 to September, 2009 |
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Opening: Friday, July 10 at 6:30 p.m.
Inspired by old charts and abandoned objects, this exhibition carries on from previous map-based paintings where Morstad reveals the underlying ambivalences and struggles at the heart of society’s cohabitation with the natural world.
His interest lies in obfuscating the map, in the visual reciprocity and the tension at play between the emerging zoological images and the map itself to arrive at a form of interspecies counter-mapping and to create a new cartographic vocabulary. This interdisciplinary approach allows Morstad to broaden his exploration on the themes of migration, encroachment, ecological decay and extirpation. By re-imagining and re-imaging our world, its built and natural environments, Morstad’s geographical maps and painted zoological leitmotifs come together to demonstrate a natural world spun out of control.
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