artwork, part of 'the possibility of an island', on show until 21/03/2009
at MOCA at goldman warehouse in miami.

new york- based artist peter coffin explores various models of perspective.
in his sculptures, installations, photographs and videos, he examines our
knowledge and interpretation of the world with curiosity and wit,
borrowing from numerous disciplines, such as art history, science and
new age beliefs to test his ideas about the way things work and exist.
his largest installation ever in the UK, peter coffin projects a 360- degree
aerial view of japanese gardens along the 90-metre curved wall of the
barbican art gallery. in japanese garden design the use of illusionist
effects such as overlapping elements, shifts in scale and multiple points
of focus combine to give the viewer an abstract and heightened sense
of reality. this spatial ambiguity of japanese gardens and its illusionary
affects are exaggerated by coffin's projection.
on show from 11/02/2009 to 10/05/2009



at the saatchi gallery in london, coffin filled a room with over 40 silhouette
cut-outs of sculptural icons such as robert indiana’s LOVE (1966).
a video at the far end of the gallery featured stock footage of
landscapes from the air. coffin’s hope was that visitors would choose
certain of his ‘props’ and put them in the way of the projection
so that they would appear as floating shadows over the countryside –
silhouettes of silhouettes of images, doubly liberated from whatever
their contexts once were.


sculpture silhouette prop (a. rodin 'the thinker' 1880) at the saatchi gallery , 2007


sculpture silhouette prop (s. le witt 'incomplete cube' 1974) at the saatchi gallery , 2007










balloon conveyor system, 2007
installation at galerie perrotin in paris