DOUGLAS BENTHAM: The Tablets
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Art Gallery of Swift Current 411 Herbert Street E, Swift Current, Saskatchewan S9H 1M5
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Douglas Bentham, "The Tablets," installation, 2016
16 1/2' x 22'
Organized by Art Gallery of Swift Current and the Moose Jaw Museum and Art Gallery
Curated by Kim Houghtaling, AGSC and Jennifer McRorie, MJM&AG
Exhibition Publication available with critical essay by art professional Jeffrey J. Spalding.
With an international reputation spanning more than four decades, Saskatoon-based sculptor Douglas Bentham’s newest exhibition The Tablets represents the artist’s first installation piece. Comprised of 32 sculptural works installed in symmetrical rows, The Tablets exhibition presents a collection of metal assemblages of richly textured bronze and brass panels infused with fractured text, numbers and dates. The presentation of these tablet-like constructions contributes to a layered, overarching narrative of time, history, mortality and the general fragility of the human condition.
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