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ParkeHarrison, Robert
American (1968-)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Exhausted Globe
SERIES TITLE: "Exhausted Globe," 1997

1997 / printed at Center Street Studio, Boston, with master printer James Stroud
photogravure with beeswax
48.2 x 39.7 cm.
Museum Purchase: Charina Foundation Purchase Fund
97:1107:0002

NON-GEH NUMBER: 10/35

EXHIBITION HISTORY: "Robert ParkeHarrison", US, NY, Rochester January 19 - April 21, 2002.//

INSCRIPTION: recto-(in pencil) "10/35" "Exhausted Globe" (signed) "RPH 97" (chop mark) (embossed shell)

copyright, Robert ParkeHarrison

NOTES: Catalogued 9/97, DZ. "Exhausted Globe is a suite of four photogravures coated in beeswax in an edition of 35. This suite by artist Robert ParkeHarrison are fantastic in both senses of the word. After constructing massive props and sets out of machine parts, wood and found objects, ParkeHarrison photographs himself in their midst. The four for this suite, subtitled Exhausted Globe, Patching the Sky, Departure, and Consumption, involve a huge globe of scrap that the artist, dressed in a dark suit, engages in various ways. The imagery was inspired by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince, but ParkeHarrison's message generally bespeaks a darker tale of existentialism in landscapes 'scarred by technology.'" [Therese Mulligan, 7/97]

SUBJECT: allegory

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