Rob and Nick Carter

RN1061
Transforming Five Tulips in a Wan-Li Vase
2017
32-minute looped film, framed iPad
17 × 15 × 2 3/4 in | 43 × 38 × 7 cmedition of 12 + 5 artists’ proofs
after Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder (1573-1621)
Five Tulips in a Wan-Li Vase, 1619
oil on wood
49 × 37 cm | 19 5/16 × 14 9/16 in
Private collection

Five different varieties of organic tulips were filmed continuously over a period of 6 days and left to decay naturally. This footage was edited so the periods of inactivity were speeded up and any real-time movement kept in real time. The finished piece is a 32-minute looped film

Included in:

Exceptional Still Lifes and Landscapes from the ‘Golden Age’ of Dutch and Flemish Art
Sotheby's, London
7 – 14 September 2022

37 Bathurst Mews, London
1 January – 31 December 2020

Hotel Londra Palace, Venice
10 May – 24 November 2019

Masterpiece, London
28 June – 4 July 2018

TEFAF, Maastricht
10 – 18 March 2018

curated by Gavin Turk
Museum van Loon, Amsterdam
3 March – 29 May 2017