A Dream of Switzerland
a dream of switzerland
Category: Paintings
Artist: Chris Gollon
Subject: Being Human
Date of Work: Jan-March
Year of Work: 2009
Media: acrylic on canvas
Size: 48" x 36"
£5,500 framed. To purchase this work, or for further information, please contact: IAP Fine Art, London. T: 0844 561 1833.
This painting was produced by Chris Gollon while he was a Fellow and First Artist in Residence at the Institute of Advanced Study, University of Durham (Jan - Mar 2009). It forms part of the exhibition 'Being Human', which is accompanied by a full colour catalogue, with texts by the other Fellows and by art historian Tamsin Pickeral.
"The cramped figure in A Dream of Switzerland needs the attention of the one in the triptych Prayer if he is ever to be allowed entry into the world of the angels. Gollon’s beings are not to be found in nature—but rather in some ethereal realm. They tell of our earth as a perilous place and their cosmos as one peopled by guardian angels that are watchful even though they aren’t able to keep others from being hurt, punished or victimized. These are beings that may touch without connecting, beings atomized and afloat in their universe." Extract from catalogue text by Frances Bartkowski.
Frances Bartkowski is Professor of English at Rutgers University-Newark. She is the author of Kissing Cousins: A New Kinship Bestiary (Columbia, 2008); Travelers, Immigrants, Inmates: Essays in Estrangement (Minnesota, 1995); and Feminist Utopias (Nebraska 1989). She often writes about visual arts, and has also published poetry.
Being Human catalogue (cover)
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