For Immediate Release

Colony Collapse Honey Installation by Gareth Bate

Colony Collapse Honey Installation by Gareth Bate

Colony Collapse Honey Installation by Gareth Bate

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Gareth Bate in three person show "Bigger, Bigger, and more Desperate" at Deleon White Gallery, Toronto.

Artists: Marcia Huyer, Karen Kraven, and Gareth Bate.

Curated by Colin Kent & Joanna Sheridan

View the Finished Colony Collapse Installation

I will be creating a large wall work and window work made of honey based on a piece I did in a class while at OCAD. This will be the first time this concept has been shown in a gallery. My plan (executed only hours before the opening!) is a large scale drawing in honey of the roman coloseum which relates to the fragility of our civilization. When honey drips it naturally forms arches that resemble those of roman architecture. It is called Colony Collapse

Artist Statement

While stands the Coliseum,
      Rome shall stand:
When falls the Coliseum, Rome
      shall fall:
And when Rome falls--the World
(Lord Byron)

In perilous times, this installation represents a sense of fragility and interconnectedness. We seem to operate under the strange idea that culture is separate from nature, as opposed to being a manifestation.

The Western honey bee is increasingly under threat from Colony Collapse Disorder where entire bee colonies vanish. When honey drips it naturally forms arches that resemble those of roman architecture. For me the Coliseum is a metaphor for the rise and fall of a civilization.

This piece also asks the question is this a wasteful act? Or is the honey more valuable in this form than it would have been stirred into a teacup and forgotten? 

Opening: THURSDAY: Nov 6th, 2008. 7:00pm - 11:00pm

DeLeon White Gallery
1139 College Street (Just West of Dufferin)
Toronto, ON

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Final curatorial exhibition by Colin Kent who died tragically a few weeks ago.

Show Runs: November 7-December 7
Friday-Sunday 1-6pm

1139 College Street (Just West of Dufferin)
Toronto, ON

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