Mark Titchner – Pandamonium 1
Mark Titchner
You Can’t Hate Nature
Panda, cellulose paint, wood, paper
H 213 x L 72 x W 66 cm
Lot no: 9
In his version of the Madonna and Child, Titchner perceives the pandas in a number of ways: idols, protesters, a mother protecting her young – but most of all as a reminder of our perilous environmental situation…
“If we ever thought that we could damage one part of the natural world, even if it is far away from us, without harming ourselves, we are very much mistaken. You can’t hate nature.”
Estimated value: £3,000 - £5,000
Mark Titchner was born in 1973 in Luton, England. He attended an Art Foundation at Hertfordshire College of Art and Design from 1991-92 before studying at Central St Martin’s College of Art and Design in London. He was invited to take part in 2nd Moscow Biennale at the Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, the 11th Biennale of Visual Arts in Serbia, and the 59th Minute public video commission series for Times Square by Creative Time in New York. In 2009 he was commissioned by Transport for London to make a project for Gloucester Road Station as part of the Art on the Underground Series – Platform for Art.
Selected exhibitions
2008 BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, England
2007 52nd Venice Biennale (Ukraine Pavilion)
2006 Turner Prize, Tate Gallery
2006 IT IS YOU. Arnolfini, Bristol
2003 Art Now series, Tate Britain
Selected collections
Government Art Collection, London
Tate Gallery, London
South London Gallery, London
West Collection, Philadelphia, USA
The auction
The pieces were auctioned on 12 October 2009 at Selfridges, Oxford Street, London to raise funds for WWF.
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