For nearly four decades Anya Gallaccio has been making work from organic, unpredictable materials such as fruit, flowers, vegetables, ice, salt and chocolate—all of which can change, decay or even disappear over the course of a single exhibition. Sometimes the British artist further subverts art-historical conventions by casting in bronze such unlikely subjects as sprouting potatoes, broad bean pods and whole tree trunks to arrest any natural processes of transformation and create provocatively anti-monumental monuments.
Gallaccio’s art draws widely on the language and conventions of Minimalism, Arte Povera and Land Art while at the same time audaciously combining them with materials and methods more commonly associated with craft, agriculture, gardening or gastronomy...
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