Benjamin ARMSTRONG – ‘Conjurers’

Benjamin Armstrong’s works are dramatically imposing in the gallery of Tolarno Galleries.

Five wooden structures depicting various root vegetables standing at the height of over two meters glare down at you little ignorant and pompous human. The day of the genetically modified vegetable has arrived. Carrots and parsnips are now viewed as edifices reaching up from the soil for power and strength creating a vegetable kingdom.

The sculptures look to made of constructed plywood and then carved into a shape of a vegetable. The roots have been burnt giving a darker colour in comparison to the lighter wood. The roots resemble long tentacles or limbs to move with. These sculptures are accompanied by three large framed watercolour images.

The exhibition seemed to be telling an untold story of a mythical battle possibly using the vegetable as a metaphor. The watercolors depict scenes of wild oceans and light bursting through layers of organic matter. It seemed to be images reflecting a conflict or an environmental event.

On until the 28^th of May.

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