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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Artist Nicholas Mangan masterfully balances a number of complex narratives in his immersive moving-image installations. In his works micro and macro worldviews spin around one another creating new forms of knowledge and experience. This catalogue accompanies the survey exhibition Limits to Growth which has been jointly developed by Monash University Museum of Art (Melbourne) the Institute of Modern Art (Brisbane) and Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art (Berlin). The exhibition and accompanying publication bring together four of Mangan’s most significant works of the past seven years Nauru-Notes from a Cretaceous World (2009-10) A World Undone (2012) Progress in Action (2013) and Ancient Lights (2015) with a new commission Limits to Growth (2016). Together these artworks capture the sensitivity with which Mangan tackles key issues of our era; notably the socio-political context of energy extraction. The artworks in this show emerge out of the conditions of Mangan’s geographic region the Asia Pacific in which his home country of Australia has played a decisive role. Mangan weaves these locations into a much broader viewpoint that takes into account the global economy resource extraction and the ultimate power of the sun. (LL)