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STATIONS OF THE CROSS

Maitlandchris Gollon Sara

Oprawa:
MIĘKKA

Wydawca:
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)

ISBN:
9780826405685

88,66 PLN
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Chris Gollon is an established name in British painting. Born London 1953 he has enjoyed many solo museum exhibitions in the UK major museum acquisitions and public commissions. He has exhibited at Art Chicago and also with Yoko Ono David Bowie and Gavin Turk in ROOT a crossover exhibition of contemporary music and art created by Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth at Chisenhale Gallery London. His work is attracting increasing acclaim in the national press and specialist arts press. His film collaboration with JABOD entitled Kaleidomorphism One was premiered in London at the East End Film Festival (2008). A Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Study University of Durham Chris Gollon lives and works in England and is represented by IAP Fine Art London. More information can be found at www.chrisgollon.com.Both the author and the artist have received high profile media attention for their work.The Stations of the Cross referred to in the book were first used on Good Friday 2008 and attracted much publicity: they featured in a major interview on BBC Radio 4s Today progamme and in The Guardian. Chris Gollons website attracts over 100000 hits per month and rising.Easter 2009 when the Stations are finally and permanently installed there will again be significant press attention but the value of this book extends far beyond Holy Week.Sara Maitlands compelling human stories give voice to Chris Gollons powerful contemporary sequence of Stations of the Cross (painted from life and reproduced in the book in highres colour images): a unique and potent collaboration.The Stations were commissioned for St John on Bethnal Green a visually prominent London Anglican church designed by Sir John Soane the neoclassical architect who also created the Bank of England and the Dulwich Picture Gallery. The church stands on the boundary between Hackney and Tower Hamlets and is therefore in one of the more deprived and multicultural areas of the UK. In 2001 the congregation made the extraordinary decision to commission a sitespecific Stations of the Cross the traditional 14 pictures of the last day of Jesus human life used from the Middle Ages onwards for meditation and prayer (and established in their usual form by St Francis of Assisi who is also credited with introducing the betterknown Christmas crib scene the two come out of the same spiritual tradition). Perhaps unexpectedly they chose a contemporary artist not best known for his religious works: Chris Gollon (see www.chrisgollon.com). The Rector described the reasoning: The church of St John on Bethnal Green has had a longstanding involvement with people on the fringes of our society the sort of people who often figure in Chris paintings. His work contains many religious allusions and forms which do not suggest conformity but challenge. These are the themes we wish to explore in this series of the Stations of the Cross and it is v

Wymiary: 198 mm 129 mm 186 gr

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