A two-year project in which Gayle Chong Kwan developed new work to reference, celebrate and critique the Grand Tour and its relationship to contemporary tourism, master planning, waste and landscape traditions within fine art. It directly references the historic Grand Tour – the traditional ‘rites-of-passage’ form of travel by upper-class young European men first begun in the 17th Century. The tour was a programme of new work by Gayle Chong Kwan presented at mac, Birmingham; Arts Co, London, Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistoletto, Italy; and ArtSway, Hampshire. Supported by National Touring, Arts Council England. www.thegrandtour.gaylechongkwan.com
‘Paris Remains’, 2009
Series of 10, Edition of 5
C-type Photographic Print on Lambda Archival Paper, 56 x 101cm
‘Les Precieuses’, 2009
Series of 12, Edition of 5
C-type Photographic Print on Lambda Archival Paper, 51 x 61cm
‘Veduta Romantica’, 2008
Series of 12, Edition of 5
C-type Photographic Print on Lambda Archival Paper, 40 x 51cm
‘Glocal Panorama’, 2008
Series of 14, Edition of 5
C-type Photographic Print on Lambda Archival Paper, 51 x 61cm
‘Atlantis V’, 2009
Series of 7, Edition of 3
C-type Photographic Print on Hahnemuhle Paper, 183 x 132cm
‘Atlantis’, 2009
Installation, Dimensions Variable, Unique
‘Terroir and the Pathetic Fallacy’, ‘The Grand Tour’, ArtSway, Hampshire, 2009
