The End
(2020)
- Medium
- silicone rubber, nylon (flock), silicone paint, plastic, fibreglass, brass, aluminium, steel, composition board, electronic components, electrical components, existing wall, sound
- Measurements
- 13.0 × 36.0 × 20.5 cm (variable) (installation) 16 min 24 sec (animation and audio)
- Place/s of Execution
- London, England
- Edition
- ed. 3/3
- Inscription
- inscribed in fibre-tipped pen on rear u.r.: ED3
- Accession Number
- 2022.791
- Department
- Contemporary Art
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased NGV Foundation and Suzanne Dawbarn Bequest, 2022
© Ryan Gander; Courtesy Lisson Gallery - Gallery location
- Not on display
- About this work
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Ryan Gander’s experimental practice can be understood as a compilation of clues staged by the artist for the viewer to solve. ‘The great potential of art is its ability to remain open, and to resist closure’, explains the artist.
In The End, the final work in a trilogy of animatronic mice, Gander calls into question the age we live in. The artist speculates existential and philosophical ideas through an animatronic mouse sculpture voiced by one of his young daughters. Drawing parallels between construction and storytelling, Gander’s work invites an intriguing and playful opportunity to reckon with some of the biggest ideas that face humanity: climate change, the effects of our technology-led age and ‘the end’.
