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Turkish Tulips

Past exhibition
3 March - 29 May 2017 Museum van Loon, Amsterdam
Rob and Nick Carter, Transforming Five Tulips in a Wan-Li Vase, 2017
Rob and Nick Carter, Transforming Five Tulips in a Wan-Li Vase, 2017
Rob and Nick Carter, Transforming Five Tulips in a Wan-Li Vase, 2017
Rob and Nick Carter, Transforming Five Tulips in a Wan-Li Vase, 2017 Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder (1573–1621)
Tulips in a Wan-Li Vase ,  1619
oil on wood
Private collection

Rob and Nick Carter

Transforming Five Tulips in a Wan-Li Vase, 2017
32-minute looped film, framed iPad
43.2 x 38.1 x 7 cm
17 x 15 x 2 3/4 in
Edition of 12 + 5 APs
RN1061

Further images

  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 1 ) Rob and Nick Carter, Black Tulip, 2012
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 2 ) Rob and Nick Carter, Black Tulip, 2012
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 3 ) Rob and Nick Carter, Black Tulip, 2012
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 4 ) Rob and Nick Carter, Black Tulip, 2012
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after Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder (1573-1621) Five Tulips in a Wan-Li Vase, 1619 oil on wood 49 × 37 cm | 19 5/16 × 14 9/16 in Private collection Five...
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Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder (1573-1621)
Five Tulips in a Wan-Li Vase, 1619
oil on wood
49 × 37 cm | 19 5/16 × 14 9/16 in
Private collection

Five different varieties of organic tulips were filmed continuously over a period of 6 days and left to decay naturally. This footage was edited so the periods of inactivity were speeded up and any real-time movement kept in real time. The finished piece is a 32-minute looped film
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Exhibitions

2022
The Collection of Juan Manuel Grasset, Exceptional Still Lifes and Landscapes from the ‘Golden Age’ of Dutch and Flemish Art, Sotheby's, London
2020
Transforming, 37 Bathurst Mews, London
2019
Transformer, Hotel Londra Palace, Venice
2018
Transforming Film Works, Masterpiece, London
Transforming Film Works, TEFAF, Maastricht
2017
Turkish Tulips, curated by Gavin Turk, Museum van Loon, Amsterdam
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