Anya Gallaccio
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flowers, chocolate installations Art Work
| Name: |
Anya Gallaccio |
| Gender: |
Female |
| Place of Birth: |
Paisley, Scotland |
| Nationality: |
Scottish |
| Birth: |
1963 |
| Death: |
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Quick Facts
| Known For: |
flowers, chocolate installations |
| Medium: |
flowers, vegetables, chocolate |
| Method: |
organic installations |
| Style: |
Minimalism |
| Fine Art Profession(s): |
Installation Artist
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Biography
The group exhibition Freeze at London's Surrey Docks in 1988 included work by Anya Gallaccio, who trained at Goldsmiths College. Her piece Waterloo was a square of dripped and drizzled lead on a warehouse floor, and a bronze cast of a child's jumper. The shapes of both were blurred by the physical properties of the medium. Gallaccio has developed a practice uniting the Minimalist concern with object specificity, with an inventive use of non traditional materials learnt from Arte Povera.Gallaccio has added another twist to art history. She states that her art is made in what she termed in the catalogue for her 1992 installation at London's Institute of Contemporary Arts, a very feminine way. She has shown a carpet of 10,000 roses, Unfitted Koses 1992, and long strings of gerbera, Head over Heels 1995 art concerned with flowers being an area in which women have conventionally been encouraged to work. She has also made pieces that play upon another supposedly feminine taste Strode and Couverture both in 1994, were made with chocolate.
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Samples of Work
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