About The Work
A private re-presentation and reconsideration of the Graham Fagen’s childhood egg collection, this work is a personal account through which to reexamine the related social hierarchies, values and exchanges that this activity carries in the artist’s memory of a particular culture of collecting. Vividly presented and carefully ordered and labeled, this print is reminiscent of a museological display or educational didactic. The artist’s choice of color palette and orderly arrangement recalls the inside of a sawdust lined box or a collector’s cabinet of curiosities, meticulously annotated by hand. The choice of title is both playful and rather melancholic—an oblique reference to a private eulogy for his childhood collection—a formal tribute to something lost.
Courtesy of Dundee Contemporary Arts
About Graham Fagen
From The Magazine
Screen print on Somerset Satin White (300gsm) paper
29.92 x 22.05 in
76.0 x 56.0 cm
This work is signed, numbered, and dated by artist.
About The Work
A private re-presentation and reconsideration of the Graham Fagen’s childhood egg collection, this work is a personal account through which to reexamine the related social hierarchies, values and exchanges that this activity carries in the artist’s memory of a particular culture of collecting. Vividly presented and carefully ordered and labeled, this print is reminiscent of a museological display or educational didactic. The artist’s choice of color palette and orderly arrangement recalls the inside of a sawdust lined box or a collector’s cabinet of curiosities, meticulously annotated by hand. The choice of title is both playful and rather melancholic—an oblique reference to a private eulogy for his childhood collection—a formal tribute to something lost.
Courtesy of Dundee Contemporary Arts
About Graham Fagen
From The Magazine
- The quoted dimensionos are for the paper size. The image size is 74 cm x 47 cm.
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