Helen Chadwick
Et in Arcadia
London, UK: Croindene Press, 1995
21.5 x 21.5 cm.
Edition of 15 signed and titled copies
Etched white marble housed in a cloth and leather bound titled box.
"Et in Arcadia, made the year before she died, possibly as a consequence of myocarditis, is as beautiful as it is disquieting. A photo etching of a black fly printed on a panel of shimmering white marble, it is abruptly counterintuitive. The insect, filthy and pestilential, is so exquisitely depicted in every whisker and proboscis as to resemble a Rembrandt etching. The ancient marble, grand and pure, is fused with the lowest of memento mori. It is a dazzling epigram to end this rare opportunity of a show."
- Laura Cumming, The Guardian
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