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Published in Twin , October 2009
Forget words. Fiona Banner turns punctuation into art. She explores the problems and possibilities of written language. For Banner, it’s all about the space between words, the urge and failure of communication. The British artist’s public artworks have included bronze casts of giant full stops, to be used as seats or to lean against. They’re objects to pause against just as we pause in conversation.
Published in BBC News online, 30 November 2007
More than 100 model fighter planes have been used to decorate a Christmas tree at the Tate Britain art gallery.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/7121633.stm
Published in The Newspaper, 2007 ( p. 25 )
‘Inside, Banner has culled together images from newspapers of fighter planes and helicopters from news reports on recent military actions. They have been cut out, identified and indexed in a scrapbook approach. The word ‘All’ in the title constructs a universe of totality, striving towards the control of achieving a complete collection, yet as any train-spotting mind will tell you, it is anything but complete.’
Published in The Globe and Mail, 14 Apri 2007 ( p. 6 )
Published in The Art Newspaper, April 2007 ( No. 179 p. 17 )
Published in Now Magazine, 15-21 March 2007 ( p. 71 )
‘Banner’s work is a subtle and engaging reading of the relationship between culture, the body and language, with some accessible humour and wit thrown in.’
http://www.nowtoronto.com/art/story.cfm?content=156485&archive=26,28,2007
Published in Now Magazine, 15 - 22 March 2007 ( VOL 26 NO 28 )
Her new show, The Bastard Word, goes further into the forms of language and the language of forms, using fighter planes and the classic human nude as starting points to explore themes that have occupied her over the years: the seductive power of the image over the word in pop culture, the gap between language and object, the iconography of the military and the deployment of sexuality.
http://www.nowtoronto.com/art/story.cfm?content=156485&archive=26,28,2007
Published in Now magazine, 8-14 March 2007 ( p. 89 )
Published in Globe and Mail, 8 March 2007 ( p. 5 )
Published in Toronto Life, 5 March 2007
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