Ryan Gander
The scent of the artist's monograph, 2024
£90
A new conceptual candle by Ryan Gander, produced with Earl of East, exclusive to House of Voltaire.
Dimensions
10.3 x 9.4 x 9.4 cm
Finishing
260 ml hand poured soy wax candle (60 hours burning time)
Made with a bespoke blend of fragrance & essential oils poured into a luxury glass jar. It comes in a rigid box with sleeve, ideal for gifting.
Courtesy the artist
About The Artwork
Celebrating our 30th anniversary in 2024, Studio Voltaire has invited many major artists to revisit and reimagine some of their previous House of Voltaire releases for our “Greatest Hits”. Gander has produced a new a candle following on from his original candle 'There will come a slowness and you should prepare for that also' from 2019. 'The scent of the artist's monograph' is a fresh yet earthy scent inspired by the smell of an artist's book, printed using an offset lithography process by a high quality German printer, then subsequently stored in boxes in a slightly damp warehouse for a number of years.
About Ryan Gander
Ryan Gander RA OBE (born 1976, Chester, UK) lives and works in Suffolk and London. He studied at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK; the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, Netherlands; and the Jan van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht, Netherlands. The artist has been a Professor of Visual Art at the University of Huddersfield and holds an honorary Doctor of the Arts at the Manchester Metropolitan University and the University of Suffolk. In 2017 he was awarded an OBE for services to contemporary art. In 2019 he was awarded the Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University. In 2022, he was made RA for the category of Sculpture.
Recent solo shows have been held at Museo Helga se Alvear, Caćeres, Spain (2024); Ishikawa Cultural Foundation, Okayama, Japan (2023); Annet Gelink, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2023); Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (2022); East Gallery at NUA, Norwich, UK (2022); Space K, Seoul, South Korea (2021) and Lisson Gallery, New York, USA (2020). Major projects include Liverpool Biennale, UK; Sydney Biennale, Sydney, Australia; British Art Show 8, Leeds, UK; Performa 15, New York, NY, USA; Panorama, High Line, New York, USA; Imagineering, Okayama Castle, Okayama, Japan; 'The artists have the keys', 2 Willow Road, London, UK; Unlimited, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland; Parcours, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland; Esperluette, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France; dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel, Germany; 'Locked Room Scenario', commissioned by Artangel, London, UK; ILLUMInations at the 54th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy; 'Intervals' at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, USA; and 'The Happy Prince', Public Art Fund, Doris C. Freedman Plaza, Central Park, New York, NY, USA.