Tania Kovats
dal 13/3/2014 al 24/5/2014
Segnalato da
13/3/2014
Tania Kovats
The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
Oceans. The British artist makes drawings, sculpture, installations and large-scale time-based projects exploring our experience and understanding of landscape. A highlight of the exhibition is a new work which presents water from all the world's seas.
The Fruitmarket Gallery's spring exhibition is a major solo exhibition of the work of British artist Tania Kovats.
British artist Tania Kovats makes drawings, sculpture, installations and large-scale time-based projects exploring our experience and understanding of landscape. She
is best known for Tree (2009), a permanent installation for the Natural History Museum in London; and Rivers, an outdoor sculpture in the landscape of Jupiter Artland outside Edinburgh. This new exhibition focuses on her fascination with the sea.
A highlight of the exhibition is All the Sea, an ambitious new work which presents water from all the world’s seas, collected with the help of a global network of people drawn in by the idea of bringing all the waters of the world to one place. It is joined by new and existing work all of which has to do in some way with the sea. Sculptures referencing cliff formations;
a machine that mimics the formation of mountains; a sculpture in the form of a reef of proliferating barnacles; a re-orientation of the world in favour of the ocean drawn on a collection of obsolete atlases; a work exploring what happens when two or more seas meet and a selection of drawings made of and with seawater combine in an evocative presentation of the impact of the sea.
Artist’s Talk
Tuesday 25 March, 6.30pm. Free.
Tania Kovats in conversation with Fiona Bradley, Director of The Fruitmarket Gallery.
Press contact:
Louise Warmington P 0131 2268182 E louise@fruitmarket.co.uk
Preview on Friday 14 March, 6.30–8.30pm.
Free Saturday tours, every Saturday at 2pm
The Fruitmarket Gallery
45 Market Street Edinburgh, EH1 1DF
Hours: Mon—Sat 11am—6pm, Sun 12—5pm
Entrance free