Flora: A Frozen English Garden presents artist Marisa Culatto's
Flora series from a botanical perspective, with texts by botanical
researcher and landscape gardener Eduardo Barba, and botanical
watercolour illustrations by Anna Tiulkina.Culatto's Flora includes
35 works, each featuring a selection of plant life that has been
composed, frozen and then photographed in the manner of a classic
still life. There is a conscious act of staging but also an element
of chance encounter to these works as the artist restricted herself
to collecting the vegetation she came across on walks or in the
day-to-day tasks of her daily life. As a consequence, each still
life features plants that were found near one another and in a
specific part of the world, such as the South East of England.The
conceptual intention addresses beauty, the loss of it, and the vain
attempt to hold on to it. Through these works, Culatto tries to
understand and accept the value of fading youth; Flora is her
personal way of exploring and coming to terms with it. Ultimately,
this body of work also speaks of the very act of photography: to
freeze the moment.Flora: A Frozen English Garden is presented in 35
chapters - one for each work in the Flora series. In addition to
the artwork itself, each section includes botanical content: Barba
writes about a single plant from the relevant work and, as the
plants in Flora are encased in ice and are not always clearly
visible, Tiulkina's illustration provides an accurate depiction of
the chosen plant.The book also includes a thorough introductory
text by the internationally renowned contemporary art curator Greg
Hilty, whose interest in the intersection of disciplines has
spanned his tenures at the Hayward Gallery, Arts Council England
and Lisson Gallery, where he has been the Curatorial Director since
2008.
General
Imprint: |
Black Dog Press
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
November 2023 |
Visual artists: |
Marisa Culatto
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Contributors: |
Eduardo Barba
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Illustrators: |
Anna Tiulkina
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Dimensions: |
289 x 233mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
160 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-912165-56-8 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-912165-56-2 |
Barcode: |
9781912165568 |
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