Dignified Kings Play Chess on Fine Green Silk
Karl Grimes
Self-Published
English
Texts by Martin Kemp, David Norris, Nigel Monaghan and Stephanie McBride.
Supported by the National Museum of Ireland and The Gallery of Photography.
Hardcover
Edition 462 and 463/500
48 pages
220 x 175 mm
2007
ISBN 9780955238833
Dignified Kings Play Chess on Fine Green Silk is a body of work by Karl Grimes based on his artist-in-residency at the Natural History Museum. The title, Dignified Kings Play Chess on Fine Green Silk, is a mnemonic – a phrase used to remember the Linnean taxonomic order of:
Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus and Species.
In photographs, drawings, lightboxes, text and sound, Grimes’s re-interpretation of the Natural History Museum’s collections in Dublin and Victorian museum practice in Ireland becomes a re-collection, a transformation activating memory and re-awakening the ‘Dead Zoo’. The museum as a repository of knowledge, historical regimes of representation and ways of seeing are here addressed as Grimes applies his practice to the archives and hidden narratives of the Museum.
(source: https://www.karlgrimes.net/html/exinfo)
About the Artist
Karl Grimes (b. 1955) is an Irish lens-based artist. He lectures in DCU and NYU, living between Dublin, Cork and New York City.
karlgrimes.net
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