Exhibition

Veduta Romantica and Cockaigne

3 Nov 2007 – 6 Jan 2008

Regular hours

Saturday
09:00 – 22:00
Sunday
09:00 – 22:00
Monday
09:00 – 22:00
Tuesday
09:00 – 22:00
Wednesday
09:00 – 22:00
Thursday
09:00 – 22:00
Friday
09:00 – 22:00

Cost of entry

Free

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Midlands Arts Centre

Birmingham
England, United Kingdom

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Travel Information

  • Bus routes with stops close to MAC include: 1, 35, 41, 45/47, 61/63. Check NX West Midlands for more information.
  • MAC is situated near to four train stations; Five Ways, University, Selly Oak and Birmingham New Street. The closest station is Five Ways - being 1.3 miles away, followed by University (1.4), then Selly Oak (1.5) and finally Birmingham New Street (1.7).
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Gayle Chong Kwan

About

Veduta Romantica features a dark, fantastical and foreboding panoramic landscape through dramatic, new photographs by artist, Gayle Chong Kwan. The images reveal a landscape constructed from chocolate, confectionary and packaging based on idealised towns, utopian social planning, tourism and research by Chong Kwan at Bourneville Village and Cadbury World. The work also references myths and accounts of colonial encounters in the 'new world' and the terrain of the places where the cocoa bean was found and from which it is now exported.

Cockaigne is a series of large-format photographs based on 14th century ideas of a glutton's paradise, a land made entirely out of food and drink. The photographs in Cockaigne join together to create extraordinary vistas from a variety of sculpted foods to explore utopian ideals of paradise, fantasy and the pursuit of the exotic in global tourism.

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