ASCHENBACH & HOFLAND GALLERIES
EXHIBITION

from Saturday, May 29th, 2010 to Tuesday, January 11th, 2011

jan van der ploeg, thom puckey
the prato project

Jan van der Ploeg / Thom Puckey

 

THE PRATO PROJECT

Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato Italy

 

Till January 11, 2011

 

www.centropecci.it

 

 

THE PRATO PROJECT combines a set of new marble sculptures by Thom Puckey with the monumental wall paintings of Jan van der Ploeg, inside the ground floor exhibition spaces of the Luigi Pecci Centre for Contemporary Art.

The joint project of these two artists brings into dialogue the chromatic abstraction of the two-dimensional painted motifs with the realism of the sculpted figures’ anticonventional content, and the monumentality of the murals with the sensual elegance of the marbles. The artists have worked together to bridge the physical gap that divides their works: extending the painted geometrical shapes on the walls into three dimensional form, as pedestals for beneath the statues. The exhibition matches the powerful tension confined within the sculptures with the fluctuating spatial dynamism suggested by the paintings.

 

 

 

Thom Puckey Figure Falling Backwards with 2 Carbines 2010 Marble Life Size The Prato Project (with Jan van der Ploeg) Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato Italy
Thom Puckey Figure Falling Backwards with 2 Carbines 2010 Marble Life Size The Prato Project (with Jan van der Ploeg) Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato Italy
Thom Puckey Figure Falling Backwards with 2 Carbines 2010 Marble Life Size The Prato Project (with Jan van der Ploeg) Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato Italy
Thom Puckey Figure Falling Backwards with 2 Carbines 2010 Marble Life Size The Prato Project (with Jan van der Ploeg) Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato Italy
Thom Puckey Figure Falling Backwards with 2 Carbines 2010 Marble Life Size The Prato Project (with Jan van der Ploeg) Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato Italy
Thom Puckey Figure Falling Backwards with 2 Carbines 2010 Marble Life Size The Prato Project (with Jan van der Ploeg) Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato Italy
Jan van der Ploeg WALL PAINTING No.285 Untitled, 2010 345 x 2671 cm. acrylic on wall The Prato Project (with Thom Puckey) Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato Italy
Jan van der Ploeg WALL PAINTING No.285 Untitled, 2010 345 x 2671 cm. acrylic on wall The Prato Project (with Thom Puckey) Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato Italy
Thom Puckey Isabelle Schiltz as Crawling Figure 2010 Marble 186 x 67 x 75 cm. The Prato Project (with Jan van der Ploeg) Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato Italy
Thom Puckey Isabelle Schiltz as Crawling Figure 2010 Marble 186 x 67 x 75 cm. The Prato Project (with Jan van der Ploeg) Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato Italy
Thom Puckey Isabelle Schiltz as Crawling Figure 2010 Marble 186 x 67 x 75 cm. The Prato Project (with Jan van der Ploeg) Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato Italy
Jan van der Ploeg WALL PAINTING No.285 Untitled, 2010 345 x 2671 cm. acrylic on wall Thom Puckey Isabelle Schiltz as Crawling Figure 2010 Marble 186 x 67 x 75 cm. The Prato Project (with Jan van der Ploeg) Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato Italy
Jan van der Ploeg WALL PAINTING No.286 Untitled, 2010 345 x 6500 cm. acrylic on wall The Prato Project (with Thom Puckey) Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato Italy
Jan van der Ploeg WALL PAINTING No.286 Untitled, 2010 345 x 6500 cm. acrylic on wall The Prato Project (with Thom Puckey) Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato Italy
Jan van der Ploeg WALL PAINTING No.286 Untitled, 2010 345 x 6500 cm. acrylic on wall The Prato Project (with Thom Puckey) Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato Italy
Thom Puckey Kim de Weijer as Amputee with 3 Pistols 2010 Marble 92 x 98 x 96 cm. The Prato Project (with Jan van der Ploeg) Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato Italy
Thom Puckey Kim de Weijer as Amputee with 3 Pistols 2010 Marble 92 x 98 x 96 cm. The Prato Project (with Jan van der Ploeg) Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato Italy
Thom Puckey Kim de Weijer as Amputee with 3 Pistols 2010 Marble 92 x 98 x 96 cm. The Prato Project (with Jan van der Ploeg) Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato Italy
Thom Puckey Kim de Weijer as Amputee with 3 Pistols 2010 Marble 92 x 98 x 96 cm. The Prato Project (with Jan van der Ploeg) Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato Italy
Thom Puckey Isabelle Schiltz as Crawling Figure 2010 Marble 186 x 67 x 75 cm. The Prato Project (with Jan van der Ploeg) Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato Italy
 
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