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Gabriel Kuri: Before Contingency After the Fact
South London Gallery.
Exposición Individual
septiembre 29 – noviembre 27, 2011
Internationally acclaimed Mexican artist Gabriel Kuri presents a new installation spanning the SLG's main space, Clore Studio and back garden. The work continues Kuri's exploration of the nature of sculpture, the formal possibilities it affords and the relationship between 'soft' and 'hard' materials and resources. It was also inspired by ideas and imagery associated with housing, shelter, aid and financial speculation.
In the SLG's main space and back garden, a series of 'hard' sculptures – large, uniformly painted metal shapes – refer to the language of statistics or graphic representations of data. By presenting sequences of related forms, each one embodying a slightly different relationship between positive and negative space, or with each one placed at a slightly different angle or tipped over on one side, Kuri exposes their potential to be perceived as abstract, symbolic and/or utilitarian. The human scale of the sculptures, for example, means that if placed at particular angles they could provide cover if someone were to lie beneath them.
Punctuated by the occasional insertion of 'soft' materials, the heavy geometric forms in the main space and garden and table-like sculptures in the Clore Studio, which in one sense function as plinths, are interspersed with objects which make more immediate and direct visual reference to paraphernalia associated with emergency housing. |