WESTZEEDIJK 114
9 February - 13 February 2011
James Aldridge, Black Ark
2008, acrylic on canvas, 200 x 250 cm
Cold Mouth Prayer
Until June 2011
Cold Mouth Prayer is a panoramic new painting, specially commissioned for Tate Modern’s Restaurant. Influenced by Renaissance landscape painting and nineteenth-century French scenic wallpaper, the artist explores his interest in the natural world as well as the ideas and imagery surrounding extreme heavy metal music. In this seductive landscape, crows exhale smoke in a scene rich in decorative flowers, yet loaded with sinister overtones.
Commissioned by Dasha and William Shenkman in memory of their mother, Belle Shenkman (1928-1995), a passionate patron and promoter of the arts.