Venezia Land (after Bellini)
Overview
2020
Archival c-type print mounted onto aluminium
Edition of 15
Dimensions: 93cm (H) x 115cm (W) / 36.6" (H) x 45.3" (W)
Note: Actual colours may vary due to photography & computer settings.
Artist Statement
93 x 115cm (framed)
70 x 92cm (unframed)
Recreates Gentile Bellini’s Miracle at the Bridge of San Lorenzo (1500). Allchurch presents Venice on one side of the Grand Canal, mirrored by a modern luxury designer outlet near Tianjin, in Northeast China, on the other. Built to resemble a Venetian streetscape, this new and sanitised Italian style retail development aims for a casual authenticity, but on closer examination is very much a pastiche; a stage set lacking in depth and patina, accommodating outlets for upmarket Italian fashion brands on its ground floors, and offering a pleasant and luxurious shopping experience in its presumptuous surroundings. In an unnerving juxtapostion of the genuine and the artificial, the boundary between the two becomes blurred, as consumers freely cross from one side to the other.
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Born: 1974
Hometown: Jersey, Channel Islands, UK
Based in: Hastings, UK
Born in Jersey, Channel Islands, UK, Emily Allchurch first specialised in sculpture before developing her unique approach to reimagining historical artworks in a contemporary photo-collage style. She shows regularly across the UK and internationally, and is a frequent participant in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in London, UK.
Her work is in the permanent collections of the Tokaido Hiroshige Museum, Japan; Minneapolis Museum of Arts, USA; Museum of London, UK; Manchester Art Gallery, UK; Nouveau Musée National de Monaco; States of Jersey, Channel Islands, UK and the Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary, Canada. Corporate collections include the Financial Conduct Authority, Unilever, Morgan Stanley, Schroders and Rathbones in London, Fidelity International in Tokyo, Gaw Capital and Link REIT in Hong Kong amongst many others.
Emily holds an MA in Sculpture from the Royal College of Art, London and lives and works in Hastings, UK.
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