GRIMM is pleased to announce the recent donation of Charles Avery's Head of an Aleph (2009) to the Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo (NL).
Showcased at the Altermodern: Fourth Tate Triennial, curated by Nicolas Bourriaud, Tate Britain, London (UK), in 2009 and the artist's solo exhibition What’s the Matter with Idealism? at GEM, Museum for Contemporary Art, The Hague (NL), in 2015. Head of an Aleph forms part of Avery's ongoing project, The Islanders, a singular world-building project that Avery has dedicated himself to for over two decades. The Islanders is a detailed portrayal of an imaginary island and its inhabitants, a complex and rich topography of fictional ideologies and culture built extensively through drawings, writings, objects, architecture and design. Head of an Aleph is a mixed media sculpture of a mythical beast named Aleph Nul (or Aleph Null) that populates the artist’s Island of eternal conceptual exploration and a testament to depths of Avery's fictional archipelago.
