Beast
Beast
Category: Paintings
Artist: Chris Gollon
Year of Work: 2009
Media: acrylic on canvas
Size: 48" x 36"
Private collection, UK. 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.
"What the gaze yields in his works is never unambiguous.
Why is Beast, so uncompromising in its condemnation of torture of humans by other humans also somehow still, poised, short of revealing what is spoken by the eyes of both the torturer and the tortured under their hooded faces? Is there something of the story of the child soldier, trained into killing without wrong intent, as told by one of the IAS Fellows working on liberation movements in Ethiopia?" Extract from catalogue text by Ash Amin.
Ash Amin is Professor of Geography and Executive Director of the Institute of Advanced Study at Durham University. He writes on the relationship between society and space in fields such as urbanism, economy, race and multiculturalism, and progressive politics. His most recent books include Cities (with Nigel Thrift, 2002, Polity), Architectures of Knowledge (with Patrick Cohendet, 2004, OUP), Thinking about Almost everything, (edited with Michael O’Neill, 2009, Profile), and The Social Economy (ed, Zed, 2009, in press).
Being Human catalogue (cover)
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