Antarctica (1994-95)

Zadok Ben-David

painted steel

Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum

Classification:

Sculpture

Materials:

Paint, Steel

Dimensions:

25 cm

Accession Number:

LEAMG:A1166.2013

Credit:

Donated by Eric and Jean Cass through the Contemporary Art Society, 2012

Scheme:

Eric and Jean Cass Gift (2010 - 2012)

Ownership history:

Purchased from Benjamin Rhodes Gallery, London by Eric and Jean Cass, 30 December 1995; by whom gifted to the Contemporary Art Society, 2012; presented to Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum, 13 August 2012

Relationship:

Benjamin Rhodes Gallery, London Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum Eric and Jean Cass

Zadok Ben-David has for some years drawn on the content of scientific manuals from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as source material for his sculptures. The distinctive line drawings illustrating anatomies, scientific phenomena and the process of evolution have formed the basis of both installations and individual sculptures.

In Antarctica (1994-95) Ben-David has taken the image of the polar icecap and has surrounded it, like a timepiece, with heads depicting the evolution of man from ape to professor. This wall sculpture, typical of an artist who uses irony and humour in his work, is nevertheless made with scientific precision, cut by laser and painted flawlessly.

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