Anya Gallaccio: Whitworth Art Gallery Announces Exhibition of Artist's Wallpapers - A Review for artdaily.org - Nov 3 '09

"...The Whitworth Art Gallery will present the first ever major UK exhibition of artists’ wallpapers. Including work by Damien Hirst, Thomas Demand, UCSD visual arts professor Anya Gallaccio, David Shrigley, Michael Craig-Martin, Angus Fairhurst, Rosemarie Trockel, Martin Boyce, Robert Gober, Francesco Simeti, Niki de St. Phalle and Abigail Lane, this is a seminal show of rare works, allowing the viewer to re-evaluate the role of wallpaper in contemporary art. The Walls Are Talking, curated by Christine Woods and Gill Saunders, features more than 30 international artists and traces the development of their interest in wallpaper, demonstrating how they have played on wallpaper’s domestic and decorative associations to throw into sharp relief their shocking or subversive messages, appropriation of historic motifs, and political or cultural observations..."

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