Anya Gallaccio

love is only a feeling

February 21 - March 20, 2004
540 West 26th Street

Press Release

Lehmann Maupin would like to announce an exhibition of new work by Anya Gallaccio. This will be Gallaccio's second solo exhibition at Lehmann Maupin.

Anya Gallaccio's sculptures and installations combine organic elements such as apples, flowers, trees, and chocolate with more traditional sculptural materials. In this exhibition, Gallaccio includes a new series of doors with flowers pressed behind glass, a potato plant plated in gold, rosehip branches cast in bronze, and a series of nets spun of glistening gold thread. Over the course of the exhibition, the flowers blacken and decay, contrasting with the gold and bronze sculptures and highlighting the opposition between the instability of the natural materials and the permanence of the cast objects.

Anya Gallaccio was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2003 and recently had solo exhibitions at the Tate Britain and at Ikon Gallery in Birmingham, England. Her work is featured in numerous public and private collections such as the Tate Gallery, the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, and South Gallery, London. Gallaccio studied at Kingston Polytechnic and at Goldsmith's College, University of London. She lives and works in London.

For more information, please contact us at info@lehmannmaupin.com or 212 255 2923

Artists in this exhibition

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Exhibition Works

till the stars all burn away, 2003 gold-plated cast bronze 33.86 x 11.42 x 3.54 inches 86 x 29 x 9 cm LM7315
till the stars all burn away, 2003 gold-plated cast bronze 33.86 x 11.42 x 3.54 inches 86 x 29 x 9 cm LM7315

From darkness, dreams're deserted, 2003 found mahoghany glazed doors two parts, each: 86.22 x 33.86 inches 219 x 86 cm LM7508
From darkness, dreams're deserted, 2003 found mahoghany glazed doors two parts, each: 86.22 x 33.86 inches 219 x 86 cm LM7508

why make it doubt, 2003 lamé netting 39.37 x 39.37 inches 100 x 100 cm LM7312
why make it doubt, 2003 lamé netting 39.37 x 39.37 inches 100 x 100 cm LM7312

like we've never met, 2003 found mahoghany glazed doors two parts, each: 91.14 x 26.97 inches 231.5 x 68.5 cm LM7507
like we've never met, 2003 found mahoghany glazed doors two parts, each: 91.14 x 26.97 inches 231.5 x 68.5 cm LM7507

If I could look inside your heart, 2003 lamé netting 118.11 x 118.11 inches 300 x 300 cm LM7313
If I could look inside your heart, 2003 lamé netting 118.11 x 118.11 inches 300 x 300 cm LM7313

If I could look inside your heart (detail), 2003 lamé netting 118.11 x 118.11 inches 300 x 300 cm LM7313
If I could look inside your heart (detail), 2003 lamé netting 118.11 x 118.11 inches 300 x 300 cm LM7313

Somebody like you, 2003 cast bronze, cast silver 55.91 x 40.55 inches 142 x 103 cm LM7316
Somebody like you, 2003 cast bronze, cast silver 55.91 x 40.55 inches 142 x 103 cm LM7316

Installation Stills

ANYA GALLACCIO: love is only a feeling Lehmann Maupin North Gallery 21 February - 20 March 2004
ANYA GALLACCIO: love is only a feeling Lehmann Maupin North Gallery 21 February - 20 March 2004

ANYA GALLACCIO: love is only a feeling Lehmann Maupin North Gallery 21 February - 20 March 2004
ANYA GALLACCIO: love is only a feeling Lehmann Maupin North Gallery 21 February - 20 March 2004

ANYA GALLACCIO: love is only a feeling Lehmann Maupin North Gallery 21 February - 20 March 2004
ANYA GALLACCIO: love is only a feeling Lehmann Maupin North Gallery 21 February - 20 March 2004

ANYA GALLACCIO: love is only a feeling Lehmann Maupin North Gallery 21 February - 20 March 2004
ANYA GALLACCIO: love is only a feeling Lehmann Maupin North Gallery 21 February - 20 March 2004

ANYA GALLACCIO: love is only a feeling Lehmann Maupin North Gallery 21 February - 20 March 2004
ANYA GALLACCIO: love is only a feeling Lehmann Maupin North Gallery 21 February - 20 March 2004

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