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Sanctuary
Artist: Gisele Amantea
Date: 1990
Dimensions:
Overall: 216 x 192 x 99 in. (548.6 x 487.7 x 251.5 cm)
Medium: Mixed Media and cast ceramic
Credit Line: From the University of Lethbridge Art Collection; gift of the artist, 1991.
Object number: 1991.38.a
Not on View
DescriptionAn installation featuring a room standing in the gallery space surrounded by 360 small white cast ceramic trees. The room interior is a thinly fresco-like painted plaster surface of scenic landscape locations in Banff. Two benches are placed inside the room. The exterior walls are flocked, a velvet like material used in outdated wall decorating technique. The violet coloured walls are patterned in gold deer with a few wolves among them. installation, mixed media, structure, room, walls, bench, landscape, ceramic trees, animals, deer, wolves Banff, Peyto Lake, Columbia Icefield, Valley of the Ten Peaks objectification of nature, culture/nature
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