IAN HAMILTON FINLAY – Fragments
IAN HAMILTON FINLAY
Fragments
8 May – 30 August
Sfeir-Semler Gallery Hamburg
hamburg
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Merging the revival of classical iconography with minimalist conceptual typography, Finlay’s work stages complex and often violent episodes of history—from antiquity to the French Revolution and the Third Reich— asserting that any vision of beauty or harmony must reckon with, rather than exclude, the contradictions and conflicts that shape it. Above all, Finlay interweaves nature throughout his installations—paying tribute to a constant, ideal, presence that, in his view, will outlast all humanity.