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| Peter Tilley, 'Navigating the Past' 2012, patinated cast bronze, Corten steel, 135 x 44 x 44cm |
In life as in nature, when all the prevailing conditions are just right we are rewarded with ‘a calm sea’.
‘Navigating the Past’ is a privately constructed environment that is a juxtaposition of unlikely objects, collectively a symbolic arrangement that defies the ordinary. The odyssey of the boat is a metaphor relating to life’s journey, a voyage through time which takes on symbolic values and multiple layers of meaning.
The work also negotiates the intersection of Egyptian funerary barques and contemporary history, transforming and combining those influences into a contemporary entity.
Peter Tilley, 2011
'Navigating the Past' is on view part of Sculpture 2012 until Saturday 11 February.
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