Richard Hamilton Treatment Room, 1984
Richard Hamilton Treatment Room, 1984
One of the most influential British artists of the twentieth Exhibition specifications
century, Richard Hamilton’s varied work is characterised by highly political subject matter.
• A room must be built for this installation
• The case details are as follows: H x W
This installation deals with the workings of power through
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of a slab table upon which we may imagine a patient.
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x D Case 1: 140 x 314 x 87cm / 522kg. Case 2: 225 x 266 x 55cm / 271kg Case 1 must travel upright and cannot be tipped. Case 1 contains: Screen in 2 sections. Case 2 contains:1 x stainless steel sink, 1 x soap dispenser, 1 x pair of elbow taps, 1 x blanket, 1 x red bucket, 4 x fluorescent lights, 1 x operating table, 1 x stool, 1 x blanket beam (4 sections), 1 x monitor + brackets, 3 x rolls of lino, 1 x DVD (Margaret Thatcher), 1 x dimmer switch pillar and base, 1 x scart lead, 1 x figure 8 mains lead for monitor. For further information on casing and installation specifications please contact us.
surveillance and indoctrination. The installation consists Above this is a monitor that shows footage from the Conservative Party Election Broadcast from 1983, and Margaret Thatcher in a classical interior. Thatcher speaks about stability; HamIlton chooses to silence her in this work, conveying that the power of the broadcast was as much in the image and symbol of Conservatism as in her actual spoken words.
There is no hire fee for this project. As well as installation and deinstallation costs, we ask venues to cover insurance and transport costs.
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