Inside Out Centre for Arts (1 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. See images. Fantastic book. About the book >.>.> Roger Ballen's Inside Out Centre for the Arts' inaugural exhibition, End of the Game, grapples with the decimation of wildlife in Africa. It confronts the viewer with profound and universal questions about man's interaction with the natural world. A collection of historical photographs, artefacts and films engage with the origins of the African safari. In par- ticular, this display explores the 'Golden Age' of hunting expeditions by colonialists and powerful Western figure- heads from 1860 onwards. It is this context that provides the basis for Ballen's artistic response to the continent's ongoing ecological plight. An extensive selection of the artist and founder's work-including the mediums of pho- tography, installation, painting and drawing-probes the complex relationship between human and animal. Distinctively uncanny, absurdist and surrealistic, Ballen's photographs and installations take the viewer on a journey into the deeper, elusive recesses of the psyche. This process of internal, psychological discovery-in which repressed or concealed m.…