Geoffrey Farmer

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Geoffrey Farmer (* 1967 in Vancouver ) is a Canadian installation artist .

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For the work The Last Two Million Years (2007) by Geoffrey Farmer, a series of cut-out images from a Reader's Digest of the same name became three-dimensional objects by presenting them on various types of pedestal. The Surgeon and the Photographer is a second work from the trilogy . Leaves of Grass (2012), the work shown at dOCUMENTA (13) , consisted of 16,000 figures that were cut out from Life magazine . Each photo was mounted on a blade of grass.

Farmer's installation A way out of the mirror was exhibited in the Canadian pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale in 2017 .

Geoffrey Farmer was awarded the Be3Dimensional Innovation Fund together with Duane Linklater .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Monopoly in the Wonderland of Living Sculptures, accessed on March 13, 2019
  2. ↑ dOCUMENTA (13). The accompanying book / The Guidebook. Catalog 3/3., Page 150, 2012, ISBN 978-3-7757-2954-3
  3. ↑ Canadian art Geoffrey Farmer in Venice: A First Look accessed on March 13, 2019 (English)
  4. ↑ CBC Artists Geoffrey Farmer, Duane Linklater earn 3D printing grants accessed on March 13, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Farmer, Geoffrey
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian installation artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Vancouver