Overview
Jupiter Artland is pleased to exhibit the first outdoor commission by French artist Caroline Mesquita, the artist’s first solo institutional exhibition in the UK. As with many of Mesquita’s sculptural tableaux, the artist will depict an energetic scene of life size figures, impassionedly staged, sharing emotive gestures over the unfolding event surrounding them. The artist presents such scenes reminiscent of Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People and the second century BC marble sculpture Winged Victory of Samothrace, which root classical forms and scenarios within the artist’s approach to raw materials, such as steel and oxidized brass.
Set around a mysterious event, Mesquita will stage a congregation of figurines around a collection of sculptural objects, with fragments and artefacts scattered across the site as if distributed by the impact of a meteorite. The artwork will be sited within a tranquil wood, set alongside the duckpond, staging the unexpected and chaotic atmosphere, whilst underpinning the theme of disruption.
When
Mon – Sun, 10am – 5pm
Outside August: Thu – Sun, 10am – 5pm
Where
Jupiter Artland
Bonnington House Steadings, Wilkieston,
Edinburgh, EH27 8BB
