Big Science (No.19) (1994-95)

Zadok Ben-David

painted aluminium

Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum

Classification:

Sculpture

Materials:

Aluminium, Paint

Physical Object Description:

A representation of two scientific measuring flasks.

Dimensions:

52.5 cm

Accession Number:

LEAMG:A1165.2013

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, 30 November 1995 by Eric and Jean Cass; by whom gifted to the Contemporary Art Society; presented to Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum, 13 August 2012

Relationship:

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

Big Science (1994-95) relates to Zadok Ben-David's massive installation, Evolution and Theory (1999), which contrasts evolution by natural selection with evolution by scientific progress and discovery. Taken from an image found in a scientific manual such as those produced in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Ben-David's flat rendering of obsolete scientific measuring devices poses that 'science is no more substantial than alchemy.'

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