THE ENLIGHTENMENT PROJECT – Marian Maguire – 9 Aug-3 Sept 2022

The Enlightenment Project
An exploration of Western history

In an attempt to understand Western history and its world-wide impact Marian Maguire produced a new suite of prints that map philosophical ideas, politics, scientific discoveries, inventions and historical events. Her starting point was the Age of Enlightenment – it was during that era that Cook’s Endeavour first dropped anchor in waters around Aotearoa New Zealand. She travelled both backwards in time, to classical antiquity, and forwards to the end of the nineteenth-century to create a framework that is expressed in the two main bookish images: Sight and Blindness I: Reason and Sight and Blindness II: Expansion. Two Diagrams plot key ideas and smaller Eye works expand on visual details.

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A catalogue accompanies this series, featuring essays by
Elizabeth Rankin, Giovanni Tiso, Sally Blundell and Marian Maguire.
116 pages, plus two folded posters.

The series comprises of 35 archival inkjet prints. Details below.

                                                  

 

All the works in this series are archival inkjet prints on Hahnemuhle Photorag 308gsm cottonrag paper.

 

Catalogue
featuring essays by Elizabeth Rankin, Giovanni Tiso,
Sally Blundell and Marian Maguire
116 pages, plus two folded posters
$67 (includes p+p within NZ)