Exhibitions Last Chance to See Edgelands Prints by George Shaw and Michael Landy
Designed to Impress: Highlights from the print collection
to 23 September Shiba Gallery (14)
to 7 October Charrington Print Room (16)
Edgelands has been defined as that uncertain and overlooked zone, neither city nor countryside, lingering on the urban edge. George Shaw’s series, Twelve Short Walks (2005), is drawn from revisited scenes of his childhood on the Tile Hill council estate in the suburbs of Coventry. Michael Landy’s Nourishment, 2002, features life-sized images of weeds, or ‘street-flowers’ —the overlooked and neglected vegetation of edgelands.
A selection of the Museum’s most spectacular prints not normally on public display. Masterpieces by some of the greatest Old Master printmakers, including Rembrandt and Dürer, hang alongside prints by later artists such as Degas, Whistler and Picasso.
George Shaw (born 1966), Twelve Short Walks 5, 2005 (detail), etching © George Shaw and Paragon Press. Acquired with the help of the Art Fund.
Christoffel Jegher (1596-1652/3), after Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), Hercules killing the Hydra, c.1630 (detail)
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