Exhibition
Nicholas Crombach: The End of the Chase
10 Aug 2018 – 15 Sep 2018
Regular hours
- Friday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- Hessische Straße 9
- Berlin
Berlin - 10115
- Germany
Travel Information
- M8, M10, M40
- U- Naturkundemuseum
- Tram M4, M5, M8, M10
Nicholas Crombach is interested in the complex interactions between humans and animals and examines the cultural significance and the complex issues percolating domestication and domination, play and survival in the 21st century.
About
Nicholas Crombach The End of The ChaseAugust 10 – September 15, 2018
Opening Reception: August from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Nicholas Crombach is interested in the complex interactions between humans and animals. Using sporting and hunting as markers of longstanding traditions of both adversarial and collaborative relationships between humans and animals, Crombach examines the cultural significance and the complex issues percolating domestication and domination, play and survival in the 21st century.
Crombach combines references to mythology via a striking aesthetic, creating works which revel in their contradictions and contrasts. Notably, the artist draws from the myth of Diana and Actaeon, which provides a poignant framework for this new series. In Ovid’s tale Actaeon, a hunter and grandson of King Cadmus, is in the forest with his dogs when he spies Artemis (Diana), the venerated goddess of the hunt, in her bath attended by her nymphs. Diana’s nymphs try to cover her modesty as the goddess feels violated by Actaoen’s brash curiosity. Diana splashes water upon Actaeon, robbing him from his ability to speak and turning him from a mortal man into a stag who flees into the forest only to be hunted down and killed by his own dogs. The hunter becomes the hunted.