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Tabernas Desert Run

Artist: Simon Starling (born 1967)

Location: Gallery of Modern Art

Date: 2004

Materials: perspex, bike, painting

Dimensions: 170 x 224 x 62cm

Grant:

Amount Paid: £20,000 (Total: £42,500)

Vendor: The Modern Institute

Review number: 5651 (2005)

Provenance:
The Modern Institute, Glasgow, 2004.

Description:
The viewer is first confronted by a familiar bicycle with an odd home made 'engine' in a vitrine which immediately conveys a sense of preciousness. The back of the vitrine has a watercolour of a cactus. There are references to environmental protection, old western movies, museum presentation methods and the charm of DIY transport. Starling crossed the Tabernas Desert in Spain on a bicycle powered by compressed hydrogen in September 2004. The only biproduct of the journey was water which was used to produce the cactus painting. Nominated for the Turner prize, 2005.

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