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Art Now: Andy Holden
8 January  –  10 April 2010
Andy Holden, Return of the Pyramid Piece, 2008 . video still
Andy Holden
Return of the Pyramid Piece 2008
video still
© courtesy the artist

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Art Now presents an installation by Andy Holden. Comprising of a large knitted boulder and an accompanying film, The Pyramid Piece acts a means of representing and reconciling the guilt of an event from the artist’s childhood – stealing a rock from the Great Pyramid of Cheops, Giza. Holden employs the laborious and repetitive process of knitting as a means of externalising the emotional mass that the stolen rock has come to represent and as a means of reparation.