David Thorpe Author:David Thorpe Imagine a hand-made fantasy sci-fi utopia lost in a forest wilderness, a — land that seems designed in a collaboration between Isaac Asimov, — William Morris and Henry David Thoreau. This thoroughly original world is — created by the young British artist David Thorpe, whose work is — beautifully presented in this exhibition catalog from the Museum K... more »urhaus
Kleve. Thorpe's pseudo-botanical watercolors are stunning in their
technical perfection, engrossing in their graceful detail; his room-filling
sculptural installations envelop the viewer in strangely familiar settings
that reference cultural and art history, like the 16th-century Lebenstreform
movement, in entirely new ways. With essays in English and German by
Guido de Werd, Roland Monig, Tom Morton and Susan L. Stoops.« less