HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA, CANADA.- .- The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia presents the exhibit Carl Zimmerman: Landmarks of Industrial Britain through January 7, 2007. Cape Breton-based artist Carl Zimmerman newest body of work, Landmarks of Industrial Britain, features 11 new photo-based works in an installation context. Zimmerman's work depicts architectural utopias, fictional ruins from fictional worlds. As the artist describes this new exhibition: In general, my overall work draws upon several art practices indebted to architecture in some fashion. While one part has been mostly preoccupied with installation another long standing project has represented architecture in photographs. In a slightly different direction is work that integrates both practices.

Landmarks is a photographic series of fictional public buildings derived from small scale architectural maquettes. The series envisages a worker's state in Britain at the time of the Industrial Revolution.

The photo work begins with the construction of scale models that when photographed appear to represent real architecture. As with my installation work proper, the results represent public and institutional buildings associated with particular historical periods, often displayed within a corresponding or related physical space.