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The Night and the First Sculpture
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*[The Night and the First Sculpture](https://www.folium.site/shop/p/alex-mourant-the-night-and-the-first-sculpture)*, 2024 Published by Folium First Edition of 200
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*[The Night and the First Sculpture](https://www.folium.site/shop/p/alex-mourant-the-night-and-the-first-sculpture)*, 2024 Published by Folium First Edition of 200
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*[The Night and the First Sculpture](https://www.folium.site/shop/p/alex-mourant-the-night-and-the-first-sculpture)*, 2024 Published by Folium First Edition of 200
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*The Night Is the First Sculpture*, 2021/2024 The Night, warehouse door, steel Dimensions variable
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*Ships That Pass in the Night (I-X)*, 2021/2024 Wood, glass, organic matter, granite, screws 50 x 100 x 60cm
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*Train Carriages (Stationary)*, 2021/2024 Wood, glass, organic matter 7 x 51 x 244cm
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*Train Carriages (Oscillating)*, 2021/2024 Wood, glass, organic matter 7 x 51 x 244cm
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*Evidence of a Failed Marriage (I)*, 2021/2024 Photo-series of 3 archival giclée prints Dimensions variable
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*Evidence of a Failed Marriage (II)*, 2021/2024 Photo-series of 3 archival giclée prints Dimensions variable
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*Evidence of a Failed Marriage (III)*, 2021/2024 Photo-series of 3 archival giclée prints Dimensions variable
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*A Week at the Seaside with You*, 2021/2024 Archival giclée print Dimensions variable
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*A Place Possesses Me*, 2021/2024 Photo-series of 46 archival giclée prints Dimensions variable
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*Perception and the Potential of Knowing*, 2021/2024 Photo-series of 10 archival giclée prints Dimensions variable
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*Waves and a Stone on the Shore*, 2021/2024 Wood, glass, organic matter, granite, screws 18 x 320 x 60cm
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*A Fin Cut the Green Glass of a Lake*, 2021/2024 Glass, organic matter, wood 27 x 300 x 300cm
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*The Life and Death of Images (An Image Caught in a Vice)*, 2021/2024 Pallet, granite, glass, organic matter, vice 75 x 120 x 100cm
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*A Shipment Belonging to R.S.*, 2021/2024 Wood, glass, organic matter, nails, screws 120 x 120 x 80cm
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*Heavy Is the Image That Stands Between Place*, 2021/2024 Pallets, wood, glass, organic matter, screws 140 x 100 x 100cm
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*An Image Raised by Two Arms*, 2021/2024 Pallets, wood, glass, organic matter 240 x 400 x 100cm
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*The Partial Formation of a Roof*, 2021/2024 Wood, glass, organic matter, screws 335 x 290 x 145cm
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*Snakes and Ladders*, 2021/2024 Forklift, pallets, ladders 500 x 640 x 120cm
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*The Axis of Time*, 2021/2024 Pallets, rebar 240 x 480 x 200cm
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*The Storyteller*, 2021/2024 Pallet, wooden chair, granite 110 x 120 x 100cm
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*The Book of Stone*, 2021/2024 Granite 15 x 12 x 20cm
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# The Night and the First Sculpture <br> <br> [Available now: First Edition (200)](https://www.folium.site/shop/p/alex-mourant-the-night-and-the-first-sculpture)<br> [Available now: Special Edition (20 +2APs)](https://www.folium.site/shop/p/thenightandthefirstsculpture-specialedition) <br> <br> *The Night and the First Sculpture* (2024) is Alexander Mourant’s first publication, containing sculptures, performances and photographs, made on his family farm. Responding, firstly, to Robert Smithson’s *Island of Broken Glass* (1969/1970), the work evolved through playful, material-led exploration, to question the metaphysical nature of images and concepts of time, space and place. <br> <br> Made under the cover of night, Mourant’s process was one of metaphorically imbuing and assembling agricultural materials – glass, wood and stone – in an attempt to materialise his own theories, often referencing novels, non-fiction, autobiography and mythologies. As Alan Huck writes, “The approach that Mourant takes is not unlike what Wordsworth proclaimed was the task of the poet – to build up the greatest things from the least suggestions.” <br> <br> In this work, the artist’s ad hoc farm-studio performs, becoming a stage or a theatre for the conjuring of images. This ‘black box’ hints at the origins of photography and the camera as architecture; one seemingly infinite, with a void-like substance and hard to define scale. Here, the night transforms into a character, encapsulating desire, the unknown and the artist’s pursuit of knowledge. <br> <br> At its heart, *The Night and the First Sculpture* proposes how images and stories may form, erode and reshape themselves over time. Mourant continues to draw upon research into Conceptualism’s cognate movements – Land Art, Arte Povera and Mono-ha – to help expand or ‘push’ our understanding of the image world. <br> <br> *The Night and the First Sculpture* includes an essay by Alan Huck, and an in conversation with Eugenie Shinkle and Alexander Mourant. <br> <br> Published by Folium, 2024.<br> Supported by ArtHouse Jersey <br> <br> First Edition of 200<br> 176mm x 225mm<br> 96 pages<br> Section sewn<br> Hardback
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