Krefeld (GER) Kunstmuseen Krefeld: Museum Haus Lange und Haus Esters 12/10/08 - 25/01/09
How do you get an elephant into a matchbox? You squeeze him in of course. Or, if the Elephant is actually an oeuvre consisting of giant photo's, you could also make prints the size of stamps.
Charles Avery (Scotland, 1973) has been working since 2004 on his epic The Islanders, a description in text and images of life on an imaginary archipelago and of the characters who live there. This vast project, which probably will occupy Avery for the rest of his life, can perhaps best be described as a meditation on the making of art and the impossibility of discovering the truth. His work is now shown at the Athens and Lyon Biennal.
