Charles Avery (B. 1973)
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Charles Avery (B. 1973)

Maquette (Design for Tree No. 1 for the Jadindagadendar)

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Charles Avery (B. 1973)
Maquette (Design for Tree No. 1 for the Jadindagadendar)
brass, nylon, enamel and steel
overall: 26 ¾ x 26 x 25 1/8in. (68 x 66 x 64cm.)
(30)Executed in 2011
Provenance
Grimm Gallery, Amsterdam.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Special notice
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

Lot Essay

In 2004, Charles Avery embarked on a lifelong endeavor. The Islanders is a vast multimedia project that describes in meticulous detail the flora, fauna, inhabitants, lives and customs of a fictional island, partly inspired by Avery’s own upbringing on the Isle of Mull in the 1970s. ‘The fiction has been strongly influenced by Mull,’ he says; ‘Now fiction is reinforming reality’ (C. Avery, quoted in J. Wullschlager, ‘Charles Avery on Show in Edinburgh,’ Financial Times, 17 July 2015). Jadindagadendar is a municipal park in the island’s capital Onomatopoeia. Filled with artificial plants and animals rather than living botanical specimens, it represents, according to the artist, the Islanders’ rejection of nature: the sculptural installations we see are souvenirs brought to our world from this strange place by a traveler called Hunter. Maquette (Design for Tree No. 1 for the Jadindagadendar), a five-metre high bronze sculpture from this series, strung with alien fruit and inspired by mathematical formulae, was installed on public commission in Edinburgh Waverley Station last year – appropriately the only rail station in the UK with a fictional moniker, named after Walter Scott’s 19th century series of novels. The present work is an elegant maquette for Tree no. 1, a full-size version of which was shown alongside other flora at Amsterdam’s Grimm Gallery in 2012.

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