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    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Anya Gallaccio, Red on Green, 1992 ICA, London, 1992
    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Anya Gallaccio, Red on Green, 1992 Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium, 1996
    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Anya Gallaccio, Red on Green, 1992 Art of the Garden, Tate Britain, 2004
    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Anya Gallaccio, Red on Green, 1992 Jupiter Artland, Scotland, 2012
    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Anya Gallaccio, Red on Green, 1992 Pompidou Centre, Metz, France, 2013
    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Anya Gallaccio, Red on Green, 1992 Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, 2019
    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Anya Gallaccio, Red on Green, 1992 British Council, Iran, 2014
    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Anya Gallaccio, Red on Green, 1992 Installation, London, 2007
    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Anya Gallaccio, Red on Green, 1992 Installation, London, 2007
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    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Anya Gallaccio, Red on Green, 1992 James Hyman Gallery, London, 2007
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    Anya Gallaccio

    Red on Green, 1992
    10,000 fragrant tea roses
    12009

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    Exhibitions

    Anya Gallaccio, Red on Green, Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), London, 1992.

    Le Jardin de la Vierge, Musée Instumental, Brussels, 1993

    Blast to Freeze: British Art in the 20th Century, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, 2002 - 2003

    Turning Points: 20th Century British Sculpture, Museum of Contemporary Art in Tehran, Iran. 2004
    of the Garden, Tate Britain, 2004

    The Flower of Life, James Hyman Gallery, London, 2007

    Red on Green, Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2012

    Anya Gallaccio. Red on Green, Centre Pompidou, Metz, 2013 (installed off-site at Basilique Saint-Vincent, Metz)

    Anya Gallaccio. Now. Scottish National Galleries, 2019
    Red on Green is Anya Gallaccio's most famous work and has been extensively exhibited across the world. It was one of the first artworks acquired by the Hyman Collection in...
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    Red on Green is Anya Gallaccio's most famous work and has been extensively exhibited across the world. It was one of the first artworks acquired by the Hyman Collection in the 1990s. It consists of ten thousand fragrant English tea roses. Ten thousand red roses are presented in a rectangle on a bed of their stalks. The title references the abstraction of Mark Rothko, whilst the passage of time transforms a symbol of romance into a memento mori. When first installed the work is a lush sea of red but over time the roses blacken and shrivel. A traditional vanitas subject is given an epic, contemporary remake.

    The artist's instructions are as follows:

    Approximately 10 000 red roses. (As many as 10 people can cut in 3 hours.) Fragrant, English Hybrid tea-roses, dark red, carmine, crimson, vermilion. Fragrant cloud, Wendy Cussons, Champs Elysees, Christian Dior, Super star, Chrysler Imperial, Eve Harkness, Alex red, Intrigue, Bonne Nuit, Loving Memory, Bingo, Ingrid Bergman, Lily Marlene.

    Mark out a rectangle on the floor approx 3m x 5m. Cut the heads from the stalks and lay them face up on top of a bed made from leaves and stems with the thorns still on. Position the blooms face up closely together. Extend the flowers beyond the edge of the bed to the floor, to ensure that none of the foliage is initially visible. The roses will shrink as they dry and reveal the first layer.


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