Patricia Piccinini

NEW YORK.-Yvon Lambert New York announced the gallery’s first exhibition by Australian artist Patricia Piccinini. Two recent sculptures and related drawings will be installed at the gallery, and will be on view from February 21 to March 22, 2008. With this series of recent sculptures, Patricia Piccinini continues her long-standing investigation into the ever more dubious boundary that separates the artificial and the natural. While the artist is most know for her hyper-realistic sculptures of genetically-engineered creatures, these works represent an important and long-standing strand of her practice that is less familiar to a New York audience. These new pieces relate directly to Truck Babies, featured in the 2000 Gwangju and 2001 Berlin Biennales, imagining the extension of ‘biotechnology’ to the point where everyday technologies are given an organic dimension. In regards to Nest (2006), she states: “This work continues my fascination in the ‘life cycles of technology’. I am interested in exploring the tangled interrelationship between the artificial and the natural by imagining the lives of machines beyond their usual ‘adult’ forms.

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