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Philippe Parreno, Spreading Like Cloud, Showering Like Rain, 2014

Philippe Parreno

Spreading Like Cloud, Showering Like Rain, 2014
Silkscreen with black and coloured inks
Unframed:
55 x 153.5 cm
21 5/8 x 60 3/8 in
Framed:
75 x 179 x 5.5 cm
29 1/2 x 70 1/2 x 2 1/8 in
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Eight drawings comprise Philippe Parreno’s 2014 series of garden drawings which depict a journey (in real and metaphysical sense of the word), just like a film. Parreno read Chengdu poet...
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Eight drawings comprise Philippe Parreno’s 2014 series of garden drawings which depict a journey (in real and metaphysical sense of the word), just like a film. Parreno read Chengdu poet Sima Xiangru's famous poem 'Fu on the Imperial Park' written in 150 BC on the Shanglin park and was inspired by it. The silkscreen and ink drawings have been overpainted from drawings Parreno originally created for his film C.H.Z. (Continuously Habitable Zones) (2011) that portrays a black garden in Portugal, which continues to grow to this day. The original set of C.H.Z. drawings have provided the ground for this new series to evolve, like a cycle of life and repetition producing new motifs. Parreno has used a combination of coloured inks to create a 3D-effect on the celluloid, therefore these drawings can be viewed through 3D-glasses and a whole other view of the garden emerges. In so doing the drawings become an automaton, creating life through their potential to be viewed three dimensionally and alluding to a future that is yet to be. The titles of the drawings are taken from lines in Xiangru’s poem.
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Exhibitions

Future Light, MAK - Österreichisches Museum für angewandte Kunst / Gegenwartskunst, Vienna, 11 June - 4 October 2015
With a Rhythmic Instinction to be Able to Travel Beyond Existing Forces of Life, Pilar Corrias Gallery, London, 14 October - 14 November, 2014

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