Jim Lambie, Sweet Bamboo, 2009
Jim Lambie, Sweet Bamboo, 2009
Jim Lambie
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Jim Lambie was born in Glasgow in 1964 and received his degree in Fine Art from the Glasgow School of Art in 1994. He represented Scotland at the Venice Biennale in 2003. The first monograph on his work, Voidoid, was published in 2004. He was nominated for the prestigious Turner Prize in 2005 for his piece entitled Mental Oyster, which was shown at Sadie Coles HQ in London and the Anton Kern Gallery in New York. Jim Lambie’s works can be found in many national and international collections.
For Pandamonium 1, Jim Lambie chose to part submerge his panda in a solid block of concrete, preserving a portion of it like a fossil embedded in the rocks and leaving the mother and baby pandas’ heads exposed to the elements. The way the pandas are disappearing into the mass of concrete visually highlights the desperate situation that we are facing with our environment: that species are being eliminated before our very eyes and it may be irreversible unless we take action – fast.