Anya Gallaccio
born 1963
© Anya Gallaccio, courtesy Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York
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Anya Gallaccio (born 1963) is a British artist, who creates site-specific, minimalist installations and often works with organic matter (including chocolate, sugar, flowers and ice).
Her use of organic materials results in natural processes of transformation and decay, meaning that Gallaccio is unable to predict the end result of her installations. Something which at the start of an exhibition may be pleasurable, such as the scent of flowers or chocolate, would inevitably become increasingly unpleasant over time. The timely and site-specific nature of her work make it notoriously difficult to document. Her work therefore challenges the traditional notion that an art object or sculpture should essentially be a monument within a museum or gallery. Instead her work often lives through the memory of those that saw and experienced it - or the concept of the artwork itself.
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Anya Gallaccio preserve ‘beauty’
1991–2003
Anya Gallaccio White Ice
2002
Anya Gallaccio Spider’s Leg at 400 x
2000
Anya Gallaccio Broken English August ‘91
1997
Anya Gallaccio Chasing Rainbows
1998
Anya Gallaccio Black Ice
2002
Film and audio
Anya Gallaccio: Artist’s Talk
In conversation with the broadcaster and critic Tim Marlow Anya Gallaccio discusses her use of sugar and oak trees in ...
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Anya Gallaccio's preserve 'beauty' 1991–2003
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Lost Art: Anya Gallaccio
The Gallery of Lost Art is an immersive, online exhibition that tells the fascinating stories of artworks that have disappeared ...
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Cultivated minds: The art of the garden
Martin Postle talks to Christoph Becker about artists and the inspiration of their gardens
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