Title

The tower of Babel: Four interretations.

Venues

Carnegie Gallery (15 December 2005 – 22 January 2006)

Date

(2005 – 2006)

Summary

Multi-artist exhibition. Located: Australia (VIC). Prints.

Documentation

catalogue

Country of context

Australia

Abstract

"The Tower of Babel is a story familiar to many. The people of Shinar shared one common language. ‘Come let us build ourselves a city with a Tower that reaches to the heavens,’ they said ‘so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth’. The Lord came down from the heavens to see the city and the tower that the men were building. The Lord said, ‘Behold, they are one people and they all have one language; this is only the beginning of what they will do. Come let us go down and confuse their language, so they may not understand one another’s speech’. So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth and they stopped building the city. That is why it was called Babel – because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world.Genesis 11

A rich collaborative effort between four artists, The Tower of Babel presents ‘towers’ composed of paper. Etchings, woodcuts, drypoints, digital prints, drawings and paper constructions address a common theme, that of the four elements of earth, air, fire and water. A couple of towers combine composite collaborative images that reflect the confusion of meaning associated with Babel." [PR]