"“When we had the opportunity to show them, of course we understood the sort of unprecedented nature of showing fossils in a gallery space,” Hyman says. “But we wanted to make sure that this also wasn't just a gimmick and a spectacle.”"
"“The exhibition pairs Chamberlain's Gondola Marianne Moore (1982) with three Maiasaura specimens, a large herbivore from the Upper Cretaceous period more than 70 million years ago. Full, mounted Maiasaura fossils are exceedingly rare and have never been exhibited before in New York, much less in a downtown commercial art gallery,” says Jacob Hyman, a partner at Amanita."
"“The skeletons are also more complete than many museum-grade specimens, he says, each one being around 62% to 85% real bone.”"
"“I wanted to promote the sculpturality of them as objects that could potentially relate to other threads of sculpture,” Hyman says. “Specifically, American sculptors like John Chamberlain, who is this behemoth of American post-war sculpture-thinking of Chamberlain as someone who's also dealt with these ideas of compression and time and articulation.”"
Amanita’s Bowery gallery presents John Chamberlain’s Gondola Marianne Moore (1982) on the floor alongside three mounted Maiasaura dinosaur skeletons. The Maiasaura specimens come from the Upper Cretaceous period more than 70 million years ago and are described as exceptionally rare, with full mounted fossils never before shown in New York and not previously exhibited in a downtown commercial art gallery. The fossils are reported to be more complete than many museum-grade specimens, with each skeleton containing about 62% to 85% real bone. The pairing is intended to avoid treating the fossils as a gimmick, instead drawing connections between Chamberlain’s compressed, time-related metal forms and the natural processes that preserve fossils. The dinosaur market has expanded since the Covid-19 pandemic and increasingly overlaps with art collecting, especially through auctions.
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