peter coffin new curve art commission at barbican gallery, london
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peter coffin new curve art commission at barbican gallery, london
image © eliot wyman
courtesy barbican art gallery
peter coffin new curve art commission
at barbican art gallery, london
11 February 2009 - 10 May 2009
the latest installation in the curve is by new york- based artist peter coffin. in this, the ninth new
commission, coffin explores various models of perspective and challenges the way in which we
perceive space. in his sculptures, installations, photographs and videos, peter coffin 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, coffin projects a 360- degree aerial view of japanese gardens along
the 90-metre curved wall of the gallery. when projected, this footage forms a continuous yet disjunctive
landscape, challenging our sense of perspective and space. 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 the 360 degree projection on the 90-meter length of the curve.
image © eliot wyman
courtesy barbican art gallery
image © eliot wyman
courtesy barbican art gallery
image © eliot wyman
courtesy barbican art gallery
image © eliot wyman
courtesy barbican art gallery
image © eliot wyman
courtesy barbican art gallery
peter coffin: cosmolology +1
art | 01.28.11
composed of a neon light installation, series of recomposed historical photographs, and living plant, the three-piece exhibition examines our human ways of organizing, representing, and understanding the world.
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new work by artist peter coffin
art | 02.04.09
new york- based artist peter coffin's artwork is on show until 21/03/2009 at MOCA at goldman warehouse in miami.
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