Robert ZHAO Renhui Cosmopolitan Species (bean weevil, pea weevil, red-legged ham beetle, merchant grain beetle, Australian spider beetle, rice weevil, drugstore beetle, red flour beetle, cabinet beetle, Mexican bean weevil)

ROBERT ZHAO RENHUI 赵仁辉

Cosmopolitan Species (bean weevil, pea weevil, red-legged ham beetle, merchant grain beetle, Australian spider beetle, rice weevil, drugstore beetle, red flour beetle, cabinet beetle, Mexican bean weevil)

2018

Diasec in frame

30(H)*30cm

Edition of 3 + 1AP

ZRH_7959

From 1910–60, German entomologist Dr. Herbert Weidner studied pest insects and their effects on human life. Considered the father of ‘urban ecology’, he collected specimens of these insects as well as the objects they damaged. This series of photographs depict his insect collection, now housed in the University of Hamburg, and divided into four cate- gories: ‘Insects that destroy Food’, ‘Insects that destroy Wood’, ‘Insects that Destroy our Materials’ and ‘Insects that causes harm to People’.

Related Exhibitions:

Taipei Biennial 2018, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan 11.17, 2018 -03.10, 2019

Disappearing Legacies: The World as Forest, Centrum für Naturkunde at the Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany 11.10, 2017 -03.29, 2018

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