Dan Starling: Unsettled histories: the transformation of a print
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ODD Gallery-- Klondike Institute of Art & Culture 2nd Ave & Princess St (Bag 8000), Dawson City, Yukon Y0B 1G0
Dan Starling, "Unsettled histories: the transformation of a print," 2021
Dan Starling: Unsettled histories: the transformation of a print
Opening Saturday, June 12th, 1 – 5pm
The drypoint prints in this exhibition continue the narrative of one of Rembrandt’s most renowned works: Christ Crucified Between Two Thieves: The Three Crosses (1653). The project uses the print as a departure point to realign the timelessness of his religiously inspired original with the timeliness of contemporary socio-political struggle in the settler-colonial context of Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories. Western art typically presents itself as God-given, timeless, and immutable....