Black Pharoahs Appropriation

2005
Nagoya, Japan
Trees, paint, synthetic mesh

Dimopoulos also made a temporary installation in Nagoya, Japan, a work that now exists only as documentary photographs. Black Pharoahs Appropriation, a one-off experiment, consisted of a row of five trees swathed in black frost cloth, a fabric similar to the white plastic protective netting used in vineyards. While creating abstracted, recognisably tree-shaped silhouettes, the transparent netting allowed the real structure of the trunks and branches to be seen. Black Pharoahs offered an interesting variation on the opaque plastic sheeting often used by those renowned wrappers of objects, Christo and Jeanne-Claude.

Ken Scarlett, Sculpture Magazine, May 2007