London - Last night I visited Charles Avery's exhibition, The Islanders: An Introduction, at Parasol Unit, an absolutely stunning exhibition fuelled by a rigorous imagination and artistic talent that spans literature, philosophy and visual art.
From the press release:
The Islanders: An Introduction is the latest instalment in Scottish artist Charles Avery's epic project which began in 2004. Avery has created texts, drawings, installations and sculptures which describe the topology and cosmology of an imaginary island, whose every feature embodies a philosophical proposition, problem or solution. Imbued with a formal beauty, humour, and a spirit of philosophical enquiry, these vivid and intricate works invite the viewer to recreate the Island in their own minds, and to use it as an arena for exploring philosophical conundrums and paradoxes.
It’s one thing to conceive of such an elaborate project, another entirely to pull it off with grace and conviction.
Liz Bruchet
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