Unnaturally - Softcover

Mary Kay Lombino; Chris Astley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0916365662 ISBN 13: 9780916365660

Publisher: Independent Curators International (ICI), 2003

Synopsis

Employing artificial materials to create simulations of nature, the 18 artists featured in UnNaturally explore the ways in which the boundaries between nature and culture are sometimes blurred. Works by Tim Hawkinson, Iìigo Manglano-Ovalle, Roxy Paine, Marc Quinn and Francis Whitehead play on our nostalgia for an idealized pre-industrial past in which man and nature coexisted harmoniously in an unspoiled landscape--the same nostalgia that has given rise to constructed environments in malls, zoos and other themed "entertainment destinations" where nature is tamed and packaged for consumer use. Through an art of studied verisimilitude, impressive craftsmanship and occasional deadpan use of irony, the artists presented here suggest that the natural world can be reproduced with man-made materials just like any other mass-produced commercial product.

About this edition

• Publisher: Independent Curators International (ICI)
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0916365662
• ISBN 13: 9780916365660
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 72