Jim Lambie - Pandamonium 1
Jim Lambie
Sweet Bamboo
Panda, concrete
H 100 x L 50 x W 50 cm
Lot no: 8
Jim Lambie chose to part-submerge his panda in a solid block of concrete, preserving a portion of it like a fossil embedded in the rocks and leaving the mother and baby pandas’ heads exposed to the elements. The way the pandas are disappearing into the mass of concrete visually highlights the desperate situation we face with our environment: that species are being eliminated before our very eyes and it may be irreversible unless we take action – fast.
Estimated value: £15,000 - £20,000
Jim Lambie was born in Glasgow in 1964 and received his degree in Fine Art from the Glasgow School of Art in 1994. He represented Scotland at the Venice Biennale in 2003. The first monograph on his work, Voidoid, was published in 2004. He was nominated for the prestigious Turner Prize in 2005 for his piece entitled Mental Oyster, which was shown at Sadie Coles HQ in London and the Anton Kern Gallery in New York.
Jim Lambie’s works can be found in many national and international collections.
Selected exhibitions
2009 Atelier Hermes, Seoul
2008 Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
2007 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
2007 Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC
2005 The Kinks (Turner Prize). Tate Gallery, London
The auction
The pieces were auctioned on 12 October 2009 at Selfridges, Oxford Street, London to raise funds for WWF.
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