afterJudith Leyster (1609-60) from Tulip Book, c.1643 watercolour and silverpoint on vellum 16 × 11 × 2 in | 41 × 28 × 5.1 cm Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem...
after Judith Leyster (1609-60) from Tulip Book, c.1643 watercolour and silverpoint on vellum 16 × 11 × 2 in | 41 × 28 × 5.1 cm Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem
Black Tulip (2012) is based on a watercolour of an ‘Early Brabantsson’ tulip by Judith Leyster dating from 1643. A 3D digital model was created to produce a 3D-printed maquette from which the final work could be cast in bronze using the lost-wax process — the Carters’ sculptural rendition of this simple drawing conveys the original’s quietness and subtle beauty. It stands for more than twenty-first-century digital triumph — rather it takes the viewer full circle to marvel at Dutch Golden Age realism and allows us to share in that culture’s delight of an exotic and sculptural flower.
2023 25 Years, RNat5A, London 2022 The Collection of Juan Manuel Grasset, Exceptional Still Lifes and Landscapes from the ‘Golden Age’ of Dutch and Flemish Art, Sotheby's, London 2017 Turkish Tulips, curated by Gavin Turk, Museum van Loon, Amsterdam 2015 Transforming, MOCA Virginia 2013 Transforming, Fine Art Society Contemporary, London
Publikationen
2013 Transforming Published by the Fine Art Society, Contemporary
Texts by Kate Bryan and Alastair Sooke