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Work Type:sculpture
Date of work:2007
Materials:medium: oil

support: milliput and alligator

Measurements:height: 60 cm

width: 70 cm

depth: 20 cm

Style Period:contemporary art
Technique:assemblage, modelling, painting
Collection:New Contemporaries
Description:
Selectors' Comments:
Gabriel Hartley's Alligator is hideous – wilfully and hilariously. It's as materially dumb and literal an enactment of mythical-monstrous as Tweed's Man from Below TV is of more socially generated subterranean disturbances. One could imagine Hartley's Alligator as a mate to the mandrake, as in the recent magical realist mystery film, Pan's Labyrinth.

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Source:"Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2007" exhibition catalogue
Date of source:2007