Work Untitled [Installation at the Natural History Museum]
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Creator: Mat Collishaw
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Installation at the Natural History Museum
By means of a pair of tropical parrots called "lovebirds" Matt Collishaw shows us a pseudo-experiment in behavioural science. The lovebird is a species that leads a life-long monogamous relationship and cannot live without the partner. In Collishaw's installation, which is partially based on the painting "The Arnolfini Portrait" by Jan van Eyck, the birds can see their deformed reflection in a convex mirror
(Text: Maifesta)
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Exhibitions
- Manifesta 1. European Biennial of Contemporary Art, 09.06.1996 – 19.08.1996, Foundation European Art Manifestation, International Foundation Manifesta, Natural History Museum, Nederland, Amsterdam, Nederland, Rotterdam, Martin Beck (gemeinsam mit Mathias Poledna), Mila Bredhikina, Carsten Höller & Rosemarie Trockel, Mat Collishaw, Maria Eichhorn, Róza El-Hassan, Olafur Eliasson, Entertainment & Co., Ayse Erkmen, Vadim Fiškin, Bernhard Fuchs, Douglas Gordon (gemeinsam mit Rirkrit Tiravanija), Tamara Grcic, Joseph Grigely, Tommi Grönlund (gemeinsam mit Petteri Nisunen), Marie Ange Guilleminot (gemeinsam mit Fabrice Hybert), Dimitrij Gutov, Jitka Hanzlová, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Christine Hill, Huang Yongping, Fabrice Hybert (gemeinsam mit Marie Ange Guilleminot), IRWIN, Alexey N. Isaev, Siraj Izhar, Henrik Plenge Jakobsen, Robert Jankuloski, Piotr Jaros, Koo Jeong-A, Ivana Keser, Soo-Ja Kim, Suchan Kinoshita, Renée Kool, Pavel Kopriva, Oleg Kulik, Yuri Leiderman, Rogelio López Cuenca, Tracey Mackenna, Eva Marisaldi, Jenny Marketou, Rosa Martínez (Kurator/in), Roger Meintjes, Viktor Misiano (Kurator/in), Esko Männikkö, Regina Möller, NEsTWORK, Petteri Nisunen (gemeinsam mit Tommi Grönlund), Katalin Néray (Kurator/in), Maurice O'Connell, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (Kurator/in), Roman Ondák, Valeri Podoroga, Tadej Pogacar, Mathias Poledna (gemeinsam mit Martin Beck), Liza May Post, Luca Quartana, Tobias Rehberger, Andrew Renton (Kurator/in), Pipilotti Rist, Gerwald Rockenschaub, Arsen Savadov (gemeinsam mit Georgij Sencheko), Pit Schulz, Georgij Senchenko (gemeinsam mit Arsen Savadov), Nedko Solakov, János Sugár, Sam Taylor-Wood, Kathy Temin, Hale Tenger, Wolfgang Tillmans, Rirkrit Tiravanija (gemeinsam mit Douglas Gordon), Jaan Toomik, Didier Trenet, Mette Tronvoll, Uri Tzaig, Paco Vacas, Eulalia Valldosera, Patrick Van Caeckenbergh, Lydia Venieri, Susann Walder, Catherine Yass, subREAL
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