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The Grand Release

Marjolijn Dijkman, 2013

The Grand Release is a site-specific mobile made by Dutch artist Marjolijn Dijkman in response to the building and displays of Norwich Castle Museum. Each object on the mobile is an abstracted reference to a display structure somewhere in the museum, the yellow one for example refers to a plinth in the Anglo Saxon room. In DijkmanÂ’s piece itÂ’s as if the display structures have been released from their normal roles and allowed to float free in the central rotunda of the museum. The Grand Release now functions as a colourful focal point and striking way of questioning conventional notions of museum curatorship and displays.

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Title of artwork, date

The Grand Release, 2013

Date supported

2015

Medium and material

Fabric, foam, aluminium poles and fishing wire

Dimensions

500 x 400 cm

Grant

2600

Total cost

6000

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