Geoffrey Farmer
Geoffrey Farmer was born 1967 BirthEagle Island, British Columbia, Canada.
Lives and works in HomeVancouver.
Categories: Installation art Sydney Biennale
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Farmer is known for producing large-scale eclectic works that are characterised by their interpretive structures, meticulous research and transformative qualities. Specific literary or cinematic narratives anchor the projects, which are continually revised, altered and adapted from exhibition to exhibition. These specific narratives become the conceptual engine and are used to generate and contextualize the processes and materials produced, acquired and presented…
I am by nature one and also many, dividing the single me into many, and even opposing them as great and small, light and dark, and in ten thousand other ways
Perhaps in a bid to pre-empt criticism, historians are fond of pointing out the omissive nature of their discipline. Artists are equally possessed by these gaps. Geoffrey Farmer’s bratty, incorrigible exhibition at The Drawing Room in London focuses on the agonistic relationship among archive, source and the interpretation of history…
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Documents of Contemporary Art. Utopias: Throughout its diverse manifestations, the utopian entails two related but contradictory elements: the aspiration to a better world, and the acknowledgment that its form may only ever live in our imaginations. Furthermore, we are as haunted by the failures of utopian enterprise as we are inspired by the desire to repair the failed and build the new... |
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South African Art Now. South African Art Now documents, through in-depth essays and stunning full-color photographs, the remarkable work of nearly one hundred South African artists working in every medium from painting, sculpture, and video to cutting-edge performance art. This lush volume includes the impressive work of art world stars such as William Kentridge and Marlene Dumas; newly prominent artists such as Berni Searle, Robin Rhode, and Mustafa Maluka; and exciting newcomers still unknown outside their own country, but clearly marked for success... |
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James Rosenquist. Painting Below Zero: Notes on a Life in Art. “Frank, funny, truthful, ironic and in every way an entertaining account of one major American artist’s involvement in an art movement that interests everyone–and, more than that, of his own character. Jim Rosenquist is a true American original and his book ought to be read by anyone who wants to understand the last half-century of his country’s visual culture, high, low, and in between.” –Robert Hughes, amazon |
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