Ian Hamilton Finlay
Age Quod Agis / Rubbing Post for a Wild Boar, 1997
stone, with Peter Coates
60 1/4 x 8 1/8 in (153 x 20.6 cm)
(transl.: “What you are doing, do thoroughly”) This post, displaying three of the four type of ornamental rustication illustrated in the Renaissance treatise, 'Five Books about Architecture,' by Sebastiano Serlio,...
(transl.: “What you are doing, do thoroughly”)
This post, displaying three of the four type of ornamental rustication illustrated in the Renaissance treatise, "Five Books about Architecture," by Sebastiano Serlio, offers an ideal surface against which a boar might thoroughly rub its coat. The Latin injunction is self-explanatory: to do anything well, one must do it thoroughly.
This post, displaying three of the four type of ornamental rustication illustrated in the Renaissance treatise, "Five Books about Architecture," by Sebastiano Serlio, offers an ideal surface against which a boar might thoroughly rub its coat. The Latin injunction is self-explanatory: to do anything well, one must do it thoroughly.
Exhibitions
New York, NY: David Nolan Gallery, Ian Hamilton Finlay: Fragments (May 8 - June 7, 2025)New York, NY: David Nolan Gallery, Ian Hamilton Finlay: “The garden became my study” (September 13 – October 27, 2018)
New York, NY: David Nolan Gallery, Ian Hamilton Finlay: Camouflage (November 4 – December 4, 2009)
Literature
Ian Hamilton Finlay, Modern Antiquities, exh. cat. (New York: David Nolan Gallery, 2000), illus.
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