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THE MIDDLE KINGDOM

 
These  paintings are parts of an ongoing series of works titled ‘The Middle Kingdom’, which are all pieces inspired by the sights and history of China, where I am currently based. I find China to be particularly evocative in light of my thematic concerns and interests, with a wealth of history reflecting the wider rise and fall of civilizations. The various pieces can be understood as elements of a fragmented narrative, which can be viewed in isolation or as pieces of a whole. There is no linear  progression through the images as such, rather I am trying to evoke a sense of cyclical time, the constant rise and aspirations as well as the fall and cynical decline: the ebb and flow of history through human traces and artifacts.
All works copyright Andrew Cole
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  • Home
  • Blog
  • Contact
  • About the Artist
  • Fictional Artefacts
  • The Order of Things
  • Roots
  • In Bad Dreams
  • The Middle Kingdom
  • Heads
  • Works on Paper
  • A Better World
  • In Mourning In Memoriam
  • The Wasteland
  • Empty Gestures
  • Eschatology
  • Incursions
  • Desert Paintings
  • Re-imagining the Human Story
  • History Paintings
  • The Ending of the Age of the Fifth Sun
  • Mapping History