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
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