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Born in 1971 in Clatterbridge, United Kingdom, and died in 2025 in London, Alastair Mackinven trained in art in Canada and London.
He obtained a BA in Fine Arts from the Alberta College of Art in Calgary, followed by an MA in Fine Arts from Goldsmiths College in London. His biography subsequently mentions a chair in figurative painting at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
His exhibitions include Numble Bound To A Stripped Standing Tree at Maureen Paley, London; Dlnrg [oeeey] at Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York; as well as Alastair Mackinven’s New Chinese Art at Curtat Tunnel, Lausanne, and From the Chinese Menu of Choice, be Warned, the Meal Will Always be Chinese at Jancou Gallery, Geneva. Performances 2006 to 2009 was presented at Focal Point Gallery in Southend-on-Sea, with a catalogue noted by the gallery. He is also among the participants in Thinking Outside the Box: the Museum Haus Konstruktiv Collection (1986-2016) at Museum Haus Konstruktiv in Zurich, and A Chorus of Strangers, as part of British Art Show 10, with Hayward Gallery Touring in the United Kingdom. The collections cited in his biography include Rubell Museum in Miami, Saatchi Gallery and Zabludowicz Collection in London.
The bibliography on his work includes, among other items, a text by Barry Schwabsky in Artforum in May 2021, as well as an article by Louis Block on Dlnrg [oeeey], published in The Brooklyn Rail in March 2021.
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Oil on canvas
"From the Chinese menu of choice, be warned, the meal will always be chinese"
huile sur toile
Catalogue period : 2024-11-28 — 2024-12-11
Published result : 1000 CHF
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Estimate : CHF 1000–1500
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