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SC0218-LST-PH-1.1
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Seneca@York - S building Level 2 - Between S2113 & S2112
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Stephen Livick (b. 1945)
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From the Calcutta Series
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1984
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Photography
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Silver prints
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40.6 x 50.8 cm
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9/12
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“Religions unfortunately have always tended to make human beings the central and leading focal point of all universal existence. Humankind actually has the incredible gall and conceited nerve to think everything revolves entirely around them. This arrogant patriarchal Lilliputian style and petty level of thinking has licensed and authorized humans to usurp total but in effect unearned control over this frail delicate planet. And to continually use and abuse it with extreme malice and prejudice accompanied by a complete disregard and cruel cavalier arrogant carelessness.
Many religious convictions indulge intellectually blighted and patriarchal arrogant attitudes and thus cloak ulterior motives pertaining to the darker side of human existence. These tainted dispositions are literally dragging much of the human race down to the bottom of the spiritual ocean of thought into the mud of the unlit slimy netherworld, far away and carefully concealed from any genuine core cosmic awareness.”
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Livick
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"Stephen Livick made six trips to India between September 1984 and November 1991. Initially what drew him to the country was the spectacle of the traditional religious celebrations. Livick centres the sculptured deities in that 1984 series within a shallow photographic space. He allows the populace, the children and other passers-by, to squeeze in between and around the religious icons, framing the edges of the images and echoing the pandals Indian artists construct to shelter their smaller statues, using curtains and painted backdrops. At the end of the monsoon season, local potters begin to sculpt various deities — Durga, Kali and Shiva, and in this photograph, Ganesh, the Hindu god of success—out of clay.
The clay sculptures are paraded throughout the district towards the Hooghly River where they are allowed to float away, literally dissolving in the silt-laden current."
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Livick
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Purchased at auction from Stairs Gallery.
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Signed lower right corner, Livick
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