Nicholas Mangan, Matter over mind, 2012. C-print on cotton paper. 69 x 103cm. Courtesy the artist and Hopkinson Cundy
Nicholas Mangan
A World Undone
19 October – 17 November 2012
at Hopkinson Cundy, Auckland
Nicholas Mangan’s sculptural practice extends into film and photography. Aptly described as a “material storytellerâ€, Mangan draws from both recent history and deep time to tease out narratives of the rise and fall of civilizations – of ambition, construction, rupture and decay – and in an unquestionably concrete language.
For A World Undone Mangan looks to Jack Hills; a remote area of Western Australia that is home to some of the oldest geological material on earth. The zircon crystal found in the aggregated rock material at Jack Hills is said to be 4,404 million years old and to have formed around 150 million years after the planet came into being. Following the discovery of the zircons in 2003, Jack Hills has become the subject of conflicting interests between conservation and commercial interests as iron ore mining in the surrounding area encroaches on the historically significant site. [read the full text here]
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Nicholas Mangan, A World Undone, 2012. HD colour, silent, 12min continuous loop. Courtesy the artist and Hopkinson Cundy
Nicholas Mangan, A World Undone, 2012. installation view. Courtesy the artist and Hopkinson Cundy