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Debuting a new large-scale installation alongside a series of busts and bronze sculptures, ‘The Serpent’ at White Cube New York marks the latest evolution in Canadian artist David Altmejd’s interrogation and upturning of nature’s sacred hierarchies – those intrinsic yet volatile structures through which order and chaos contend. Forged through an instinct-driven process that merges realism with crude expressionism, Altmejd’s work manifests as a potent expression of the subconscious mind, wherein elemental dichotomies of man and beast, entropy and structure, growth and decay, co-mingle in an ecstatic revelation.
Entering the first floor of the gallery, we are met with The Serpent (all works 2025) – a monumental, winding serpent, composed of a chain of conjoined human heads, its own head lifting to meet that of its conjurer, Snake Charmer. The reciprocal relationship between these two sculptures enacts a dialogue between creation and creator, between matter and design – a tension that…
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Debuting a new large-scale installation alongside a series of busts and bronze sculptures, ‘The Serpent’ at White Cube New York marks the latest evolution in Canadian artist David Altmejd’s interrogation and upturning of nature’s sacred hierarchies – those intrinsic yet volatile structures through which order and chaos contend. Forged through an instinct-driven process that merges realism with crude expressionism, Altmejd’s work manifests as a potent expression of the subconscious mind, wherein elemental dichotomies of man and beast, entropy and structure, growth and decay, co-mingle in an ecstatic revelation.
Entering the first floor of the gallery, we are met with The Serpent (all works 2025) – a monumental, winding serpent, composed of a chain of conjoined human heads, its own head lifting to meet that of its conjurer, Snake Charmer. The reciprocal relationship between these two sculptures enacts a dialogue between creation and creator, between matter and design – a tension that…
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