Steve McQueen, Installation view, Sunshine State, Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, 2022. Photo Agostino Osio.
Steve McQueen
Moonlit, 2016
marble, silver leaf
Part 1:
90 x 60 x 40 cm.
35 3/8 x 23 5/8 x 15 3/4 in.
Part 2:
90 x 80 x 45 cm.
35 3/8 x 31 1/2 x 17 3/4 in.
90 x 60 x 40 cm.
35 3/8 x 23 5/8 x 15 3/4 in.
Part 2:
90 x 80 x 45 cm.
35 3/8 x 31 1/2 x 17 3/4 in.
edition 1 of 1 + 1AP
copyright the artist
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Moonlit (2016) Two marble rocks covered in silver leaf sit side by side on the ground. The elements of reflection and form come into play. Gravity is reinforced at the...
Moonlit (2016)
Two marble rocks covered in silver leaf sit side by side on the ground. The elements of reflection and form come into play. Gravity is reinforced at the same time as luminosity which infiltrate the objects and its surroundings. Like the Chicxulub asteroid responsible for mass destruction on earth 66 million years ago, these sculptures have an other-worldly feel, but they are also connected to earth’s regeneration and the richness of its mineral fabric, and instigate new life.
Moonlit connects with McQueen’s films Western Deep, 2002, Carib’s Leap, 2002; in Western Deep the artists’ camera descends into a dark shaft of the deepest mineral rich gold mine Tau Tona in South Africa and follows the men on their dangerous quest for this precious metal. From the bowls of the earth, we are drawn out by these rocks which illuminate the darkness. Moonlit rocks left in limbo in space, the residual elements from the birth of our solar system, a constant reminder of our fragility and precarious existence.
Two marble rocks covered in silver leaf sit side by side on the ground. The elements of reflection and form come into play. Gravity is reinforced at the same time as luminosity which infiltrate the objects and its surroundings. Like the Chicxulub asteroid responsible for mass destruction on earth 66 million years ago, these sculptures have an other-worldly feel, but they are also connected to earth’s regeneration and the richness of its mineral fabric, and instigate new life.
Moonlit connects with McQueen’s films Western Deep, 2002, Carib’s Leap, 2002; in Western Deep the artists’ camera descends into a dark shaft of the deepest mineral rich gold mine Tau Tona in South Africa and follows the men on their dangerous quest for this precious metal. From the bowls of the earth, we are drawn out by these rocks which illuminate the darkness. Moonlit rocks left in limbo in space, the residual elements from the birth of our solar system, a constant reminder of our fragility and precarious existence.