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Peter Madden /

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Brisbane, Qld. : IMA, 2011.Description: 95 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9781875792702
  • 1875792708
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Partial contents:
Counter-hex: cutting is curing / Tessa Laird -- Orgasm and trauma / Peter Madden talks to Robert Leonard.
Summary: New Zealand collage artist Peter Madden draws much of his imagery from old issues of National Geographic. He plunders and reworks the magazine's discredited 'empire of signs' to forge his own. His surrealistic pictures, objects, and installations with their watchmaker detail and intensity have been described as 'microcosms' and 'intricate kingdoms of flying forms' Madden has one foot in the vanitas still-life tradition and the other in new-age thinking. On the one hand, he is death obsessed: a master of morbid decoupage. (Moths and butterflies symbols of transient life abound. His assemblages in bell jars suggest some Victorian taxidermist killing time in his parlour.) On the other hand, with his flocks, shoals, and swarms of quivering animal energy, he revels in biodiversity and magic. Madden's works manage to be at once morbid and abundant, rotting and blooming, creepy and fey. This book serveys Madden's work of the last ten years, features an essay by Tessa Laird and an interview with Robert Leonard, and was supported by Creative New Zealand.
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Book Limited Loan Book Limited Loan Whitecliffe Library NZ & Pacific NZ & Pacific NZ&P N 7408 MAD (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0008619
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Essay by Tessa Laird.

Includes bibliographical references.

Counter-hex: cutting is curing / Tessa Laird -- Orgasm and trauma / Peter Madden talks to Robert Leonard.

New Zealand collage artist Peter Madden draws much of his imagery from old issues of National Geographic. He plunders and reworks the magazine's discredited 'empire of signs' to forge his own. His surrealistic pictures, objects, and installations with their watchmaker detail and intensity have been described as 'microcosms' and 'intricate kingdoms of flying forms' Madden has one foot in the vanitas still-life tradition and the other in new-age thinking. On the one hand, he is death obsessed: a master of morbid decoupage. (Moths and butterflies symbols of transient life abound. His assemblages in bell jars suggest some Victorian taxidermist killing time in his parlour.) On the other hand, with his flocks, shoals, and swarms of quivering animal energy, he revels in biodiversity and magic. Madden's works manage to be at once morbid and abundant, rotting and blooming, creepy and fey. This book serveys Madden's work of the last ten years, features an essay by Tessa Laird and an interview with Robert Leonard, and was supported by Creative New Zealand.

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