Hundreds of mines and mine shafts dot this site of major uranium exploration dating from the 1950's.
In the northern latitudes of the continent, the Tropical Eastern Pacific TEPP) Biogeographic Region has a rich history of oceanographic and biological explorations dating back to the voyage of Charles Darwin to the Galapagos aboard the HMS Beagle in 1835 and other scientific expeditions.
The work was Whiteread's most ambitious exploration to date of the utterly familiar, yet almost entirely overlooked.
In this startlingly frank retelling of space exploration to date, much of the post-Apollo history at NASA is seasoned with bitterness.
What starts out as a high-gloss sudsfest suddenly dips into a shrill, moralistic exploration of date rape, then plunges into violent melodrama.
The mission is in the planning stages – if funded it would launch in 2020 – but if it goes ahead the manoeuvres involved could provide some of the most dramatic moments of space exploration to date.
Technical difficulties during its development have delayed the launching for two years, but it is expected to get to Mars about eight months after liftoff, providing planetary scientists with the most detailed exploration to date of the Martian surface.
Here the artist talks about the global domination of self-absorption, consumerism, and this, his latest -- and perhaps most exposing -- painterly exploration to date.
Those old, terrible, Inbetweeners-style clichés about Strongbow and fingering are looking increasingly redundant, as this new culture of free parties, balloons, bucket hats and internet economies takes ahold, yet the same age-old tribal ideals of escapism and exploration that date right back to the dawn of the teenager are still at the heart of what they do.
