Grand Detour: Vedute And Other Curious Observations Off The Grand Route, 2006
Pencil and watercolour on paper, painted wall with pencil grid; Installation Dims.530x320 cms.
Framed images: 45x35cms; 40x30cms; 35x25cms
Grand Detour Shop: T-shirts, caps, mugs, pens, glass shelving, wall fixtures.
Installation images courtesy Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Düsseldorf
 
Grand Detour borrows the manner and techniques of the 18th Century Grand Tour artists to depict rubbish and detritus in the streets around Parker’s Box gallery in New York, where the work was first shown.
 
Through maps, etchings, pencil sketches and watercolours, the work explores the idea of the view, or vedute, as commodity and representation of place first developed by the Grand Tour artists and later transformed into the tourist images, postcards and brochures of today.
 
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