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Work Type:	sculpture
Date of work:	2006
Materials:	medium: oil and plaster support: shoes
Measurements:	height: 70 cm width: 35 cm depth: 15 cm
Style Period:	contemporary art
Technique:	construction, modelling

Description:	Selectors' Comments: Gabriel Hartley's Alligator is hideous – wilfully and hilariously. It's as materially dumb and literal an enactment of mythical-monstrous as Tweed's Man from Below TV is of more socially generated subterranean disturbances. One could imagine Hartley's Alligator as a mate to the mandrake, as in the recent magical realist mystery film, Pan's Labyrinth. [MORE] [LESS] Selectors' Comments: Gabriel Hartley's Alligator is hideous – wilfully and hilariously. It's as materially dumb and literal an enactment of mythical-monstrous as Tweed's Man from Below TV is of more socially generated subterranean disturbances. One could imagine Hartley's Alligator as a mate to the mandrake, as in the recent magical realist mystery film, Pan's Labyrinth.

Source:	"Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2007" exhibition catalogue

Date of source:	2007

Name	Type	Year	Date	ID
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2007 (Club Row)	1	2007	10/10/2007 - 04/11/2007	77
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2007 (Walsall)	1	2007	13/07/2007 - 02/09/2007	87
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2007 (Cornerhouse)	1	2007	22/11/2007 - 20/01/2008	88