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LONDON ART FAIR
INDUSTRY INCARNATE TRIPTYCH 

A Solo Presentation by Maxim Burnett

INDUSTRY INCARNATE CATALOGUE

ADDRESS:

Stand P8 | Business Design Centre | 52 Upper Street London | N1 0QH

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DATES:​

Tuesday 21.01: VIP Preview 2 - 5 pm | Evening Preview 5 - 9pm

Wednesday 22.01: 11am - 9pm | Late Opening 5 - 9pm

Thursday - Saturday 23.01 - 25.01: 11am - 7pm

Sunday 26.01: 11am - 5pm

 

If you are interested in acquiring Burnett's paintings or prints please contact jack@brusheswithgreatness.co.uk to request complimentary tickets.

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EXHIBITING MAXIM BURNETT'S INDUSTRY INCARNATE TRIPTYCH

As part of London Art Fair's PLATFORM Section, Curated by Becca Pella-Fry

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PLATFORM

Today For You, Tomorrow For Me


'Today for you, tomorrow for me is an invitation to live in harmony with Mother Earth, and with each other. If we start with giving, rather than taking, everything might look different.


The artists exhibiting here make artwork about the earth, nature, spirituality and emotional connections. Essentially, they are interested in exploring what love for all beings looks like.'​

 

Becca Pelly-Fry

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INDUSTRY INCARNATE​

Maxim Burnett’s triptych Industry Incarnate comprises the monumental 261 x 157cm paintings Oil Rig Aflame in the North Atlantic, Soil & Spade, and The Last Breath. Each work strives to enshrine and eulogise industrial subjects of the 21st century. Visual allegory and sheer scale are used to memorialise and lament the contemporary condition. Taking both thematic and stylistic inspiration from mid-century movements such as the Russian Constructivists and Romanticism, Burnett’s triptych reflects on their perception of an industrial, secular future as a utopic opportunity, considering where this Faustian ideology has taken our species and the wider natural world. Burnett chose to gilt frame the triptych – a skill he acquired whilst being unable to paint due to temporary nerve damage caused by cancer - to align with the practice’s tradition which is often associated with religious icons, religious imagery, and paintings of cultural status. The deification of each painting’s subject stands as a testament to the existential magnitude and sublimity of modern society.

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​INDUSTRY INCARNATE​

Burnett's Poem that Inspired the Paintings

The 2nd, 3rd & 4th stanzas inform each of three paintings left - right

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Plunging deep, dark pools to reap
The abyssal dew of briney tombs
That slick and spill their ancient goo.

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Burn the sky, boil the ocean
And drive our mighty engines motion
To churn and grind through smoke and grime.

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Fell the tree, til’ forest clear
And in the paddocks the cow we’ll rear
That eat and die and multiply.

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Dredge the sea and haul the net
Til’ even ocean floors are swept
That knot and strain and catch and wrap.

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And while we keep the storm from mind
Below, within, great tempests brew
The likes of which we never knew,
And when they come, as ceaseless tides
To wash away our hungry hives
I, for one, will be glad.

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MAXIM BURNETT
MAXIM BURNETT'S STUDIO