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| Precious Commodities Launch Night |
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| Invite to the Exhibition Launch |
Precious Commodities is the name of Artist Mishka Henners new Solo Exhibition at the Open Eye Gallery in Liverpool, presenting works including US Feedlots, Giant Oil Field, and erased masterpieces.
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| Beef and Oil |
'A Birds Eye view of Modern Life's most Precious Commodities'
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| Front cover of Vice Magazine |
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| Mishka Henner with two of his US feedlot series. Tascosa Feedyard and Randall County Feedyard. |
Randall County Feedyard, Amarillo, Texas – One quarter-pound hamburger
patty takes more than six pounds of grain, 52 gallons of water, 74 square feet
of land, and 1000 BTUs of fossil fuel to produce
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| Mishka Henner with his Giant Oil Field |
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| Brahaney Oil Field, Plains, Texas |
Brahaney Oil
Field, Plains, Texas – One 42-gallon barrel of crude oil yields approximately
19 gallons of gasoline.
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| Tascosa Feed Yard, Bushland, Texas |
Tascosa Feed
Yard, Bushland, Texas – There were about 31 million beef cows in the US as of
2011, and 27 million feeder calves on their way to becoming meat. The country
exported 2.78 billion pounds of beef that year, worth a total of $5.04
billion.
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| Erased masterpieces |
“What a poem this is, what poems can be written about
this book of pictures some day
by some young new writer high
by candlelight bending
over them describing every
gray mysterious detail, the gray
film thatcaught the actual
pink juice of human kind.
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- From the introduction by Elisabeth Tonnard.
Less Americains 2013 Hardback - by Mishka Henner
Edition of 350. Get your copy here
