'Toxic': Book Art & Calligraphy by Denis Brown 1993
Mixed media on paper folios, with patinated copper. 88cm x 105cm x 36cm; 35" x 41" x 14".
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'Toxic': Book Art & Calligraphy by Denis Brown 1993Mixed media on paper folios, with patinated copper. 88cm x 105cm x 36cm; 35" x 41" x 14".
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Click in the image for a huge enlargement A biblical text is obscured behind oxidized copper sheeting, Two heavy electric cables cross the book diagonally from each corner, and splay into a tangle of wires above the text. The form recalls Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel scene of God passing the spark of life to Adam. The word TOXIC is spelt along the other diagonal, in letters bolted on, copper to copper.
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