EXHIBIT: Creature Discomforts

If you happen to be in New Zealand in the next month check out CREATURE DISCOMFORTS: DECORATING WITH DEATH at the Suter Art Gallery in Nelson.  Curator Anna-Marie White explains the exhibition:

Creature Discomforts explores our changing attitudes towards animals as a form of decoration.

It compares the current trend for taxidermy in contemporary art with historic artefacts from public museums and private collections. These include objects such as an albatross foot purse, an armadillo sewing basket, a peacock turban and a kiwi beak brooch – all coveted and glamorous accessories in their time but now considered gruesome relics of a different era.

Check out the exhibition site here +

http://thesuter.org.nz/whatson/creaturediscomforts.aspx

And a few images of the exhibition:

 

Comments

[Toronto Home Staging]

These little fellas are already dead that is why they are labeled under taxidermy...however one should remember that those who are still alive or struggling to keep their species alive should be the ones looked after

[Ergo Baby Carrier]

Whoa....is that a real alligator bag in the picture above...I ahev been longing to see one, they seem to be expensive :O

[Cheerleading Trophies]

It compares the current trend for taxidermy in contemporary art with historic artefacts from public museums and private collections.

[Baby Slings]

These things sure look good but it sure looks unkind killing animals and stuffing them up just for fun.