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Garrett Phelan Basel Statement 2008 - 'Battle for the Birds'.
The
'Battle for the Birds' (2008) installation
was originally created for Art Statements; Art
Basel 39 and was loosely based around a 16th
Century painting by Flemish artist Frans Snyder
entitled ‘Battle of the Birds’ located at the Crawford Municipal Gallery, Cork,
Ireland. Garrett Phelan's
installation takes the form of drawings,
animation, sculpture and sound. In Snyder’s vicious and violent
painting bird fights bird for territorial control, here Phelan illustrates
and describes on behalf of the avian community a type of politicised
take-over, threat or revolt against the human population whose treatment of
the earth has been, thus far, shamefully inadequate.
This body of work has toured the UK as part of 'End of the
Line-attidudes in drawing',
a touring show initiated by Southbank Centre the Hayward during 2009.
Installation contents:
Mutant Finch drawings
Mynah
Drawings
Large Mynah Drawings
Ringed Drawings
Roding Glowing Woodcock
on Reconnaissance
After
the Mynahs - Radio Tomb
Agitprop
- Songs of Principles
HIDE
Thank God For Us
- (Animation)
Venue installation shots
The Fruitmarket Gallery
45 Market Street
Edinburgh EH1 1DF
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