Chris Marshall : Manet's Last Flower Paintings
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Installation inspired by Manet's Last Flower Paintings : 2002

Kornhauschen, Aschaffeneberg, Germany.

This installation embodies within its substance our close (human) parallel with that of flowers. Our fragility, vulnerability and weaknesses.The objects combine artistic, botanical, and alchemical endeavours, to preserve, enhance and glorify these flowers. The struggle to fix colour, body and essence became paramount.

Small glass sculptures concerned with the passage of time, of transformation, of preservation and ultimately death.

 

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