102983 | GREAT BRITAIN. "Haec Ubi Regnant" cast bronze Medal.

102983  |  GREAT BRITAIN. "Haec Ubi Regnant" cast bronze Medal. Issued 1990 (102mm, 410.30 g, 12h). By David Chandler for the British Art Medal Society.

 

Etching of a vase with a lid; the artist's signature to the lower right // HAEC UBI / REGNANT (where these rule), landscape of man-made objects, including a padlock, hook, and rings. Edge: Plain.

 

Attwood 70; The Medal 18, p. 122. As Made. Deep brown surfaces, with great relief. Quite rare, with a total output of just 21 pieces.

 

About the author of this medal, as well as his concepts for its design, The Medal 18 offers the following summary:

 

David Chandler (b. 1955) studied history of art at Cambridge University and the Courtauld Institute. At 25 he went to Wimbledon School of Art to develop his career as a painter and printmaker. In 1986 English Heritage sponsored a one man show, which was followed in 1987 by a national prize for a large lino print. He has recently shown his prints at the Salisbury Festival and the Bradford Print Biennale. An exhibition of paintings and prints will be staged at the Senate House, University of Liverpool, in late April 1990.

 

The artist gave a talk on his work to BAMS in October last year. He now writes:

 

'I decided that my first medal should bear a type of head and tail. The source for the "head" is an etching of a type of vase-face, with a lid, that was contained in my artist's book Boethius (1988), a suite of etchings.

 

Both sides of the medal refer to Boethius, a philosopher who was murdered in Pavia in 524 AD. The text of the verso is from line 33 of metrum vii, Book I, of his Consolation of Philosophy: "where these rule". I hoped to broaden the context and show a circular "landscape" made up of man-made objects that carry symbolic references, despite their apparent banality.

 

I was very concerned that the elements should also be to scale, that is their natural size. I also seek to convey space by the illusion of submerged objects. Happily, the use of bronze also reunites some of these once metal objects with their original material natures. It invites manual investigation in a simple tactile way, while the whole pays tribute to one of the great minds of the so-called "Dark Ages"'

 

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