Gavin Brown's enterprise

Since the early 1990s, the work of Rob Pruitt (*1964, Washington DC, USA) combines post-modern pop aesthetics and political satire. In the installation History of the World, Pruitt drafts the exhibition space as an archaeological landscape with fiberglas dinosaur models fabricated by a supplier for local natural history museums. They are given a mirror effect by being covered with black chrome, as if they have risen from a tar pit. The dinosaurs glance at large-scale oil paintings, which show the rooms of people who suffer from hoarder syndrome. The exhibition poignantly condenses the history of the world.