Ape Culture Primary Information Swiss artist Gil Pellaton's paintings

Swiss artist Gil Pellaton's paintings drift between the picturesque and surrealist bucolic doom

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Ape Culture traces the long cultural and scientific obsession with humanity’s closest relatives

Laurent Le Deunff works principally with materials drawn from the world of nature

Heike Catherina Mertens

Ape Culture Primary Information Swiss artist Gil Pellaton's paintingsApe Culture traces the long cultural and scientific obsession with humanitys closest relatives. In the Western historical representations of modernity, depictions of apes were traditionally used to show the absence of culture. Standing as a liminal figure separating humans and animals, the ape has, since ancient times, played a central role in the narrative of civilisational progress. This book, which appears in conjunction with the exhibition of the