Ian Hamilton Finlay (Photo: Norman McBeath RSA)
WAVE / ROCK, 1989 with Michael Harvey and Joanna Soroka
Tapestry
44 x 268 cm
Unique piece
BRAILED, 1995 with Peter Coates
Green Oak
ca. 47 x 14 x 15 cm
Unique piece
A LAST WORD: RUDDER, 1999 with Keith Brookwell, John Andrew
Wood
ca. 147 x 116 x 8 cm
Unique piece
In Preaching / In Walking Bishop Andrews (Devotions) / Ian Hamilton Finlay (Echoes Series), 2000
with Andrew Daish and Keith Brookwell
Oak wood
60 x 47 x 28 cm
Unique piece
PZ 492, 1998 with Andrew Whittle
Stone relief
ca. 34,5 x 56 x 3 cm
Unique piece
FRAGMENTS
To mark the centenary of the birth of IAN HAMILTON FINLAY (1925-2006), STAMPA presents "FRAGMENTS", an exhibition of the Scottish artist, poet and founder of the artists’ garden "Little Sparta". As one of the most important British exponents of Concrete Poetry, Finlay reinvigorated the classical tradition in a body of work that encompasses a variety of creative forms and themes, including poetry, history and natural philosophy, to celebrate the sustaining power of words. He thus gave language a new artistic dimension and material form, poetically inscribing it into the world.
«FRAGMENTS» is both a a series of anniversary exhibitions taking place in eight international galleries from Basel to New York and a major new book, curated and edited by Pia Maria Simig.