Tony Cragg is one of the most innovative and versatile sculptors in the international contemporary art world. Ulrich Loock, Clay Has a Memory, in: Ceramic SpacesĬourtesy the artist and Konrad Fischer Galerie

Unlike the Modernist commandment to innovate, he finds the discrepancies he seeks by using art techniques that are deemed obsolete, as for instance etching in the field of prints, or ceramic in the realm of Sculpture. Thomas Schütte’s work seems to be about finding divergent and unforeseen forms for pictures and images, which for their part have a simple plausibility to them, whether they belong to the standard stock of tradition and convention or are based on puns, sayings, misunderstandings or kindred figures of speech. Julia Peyton-Jones / Hans Ulrich Obrist, Thomas Schütte: Faces & Figures The long tradition of portraiture has been an ongoing resource for Thomas Schütte it is a continuum which he often analyses and re-invents. Indeed, over many years his practice has been marked in its testing of the limitations of all traditions, genres and mediums. With works by Saelia Aparicio, Alice Channer, Jesse Darling, Nicolas Deshayes, Kira Freije, Siobhán Hapaska, Nnena Kalu, Joe Namy, Harold Offeh, Ro Robertson and Vanessa da Silva.Ĭourtesy the artist and Photos MK Gallery There is also love, tenderness, glamour, and compulsion.” Jealous bodies, broken bodies, fossilised bodies, vulnerable, contaminated bodies.

Many of them allude to bodies or systems that relate to bodies. “There is a leakage, a seepage in these works. Discover elements that change and grow, sculptures that are made to be worn, and things that will never be finished. Works made from crab shells, tree roots, shopping bags, and hosiery sit alongside a dance floor and a water fountain. The exhibition explores the body’s newly configured relation to the world which involves increasingly fluid movement between binary systems, technology, human forms, animals, identities, and the environment.Įncompassing sculpture in its widest sense, the exhibition includes play, touch and sound. Trickster Figures presents the next chapter in the story of British sculpture, bringing together a selection of work by eleven contemporary artists. Trickster Figures: Sculpture and the Body

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