Andy Goldsworthy
dal 9/6/2011 al 10/9/2011
Segnalato da
9/6/2011
Andy Goldsworthy
Pori Art Museum, Pori
Goldsworthy's practice often involves an unplanned, intuitive response to a particular place, using materials found in that exact place. In this case Goldsworthy was invited to construct this particular work, one of a series of screens Goldsworthy has constructed in various locations, in the main hall of the Pori Art Museum. The context here is the consideration of different modes of abstraction.
Curated by Juliette Kennedy
“Movement, change, light, growth and decay are the lifeblood of nature, the energies that I try to
tap through my work. I need the shock of touch, the resistance of place, materials and weather, the
earth as my source. I want to get under the surface. When I work with a leaf, rock, stick, it is not
just that material in itself, it is an opening into the processes of life within and around it. When I
leave it, these processes continue.”---Andy Goldsworthy.
Known for his astonishingly beautiful sculptural and performative collaborations with nature,
the renowned British land artist Andy Goldsworthy is presented to the Finnish public for the
first time with a large screen construction made from cattails collected in and around the Pori
area.
Andy Goldsworthy's practice often involves an unplanned, intuitive response to a particular
place, using materials found in that exact place. In this case Goldsworthy was invited to
construct this particular work, one of a series of screens Goldsworthy has constructed in various
locations, in the main hall of the Pori Art Museum. The context here is the consideration of
different modes of abstraction.
Like many of Goldsworthy's works, the screen has its origins as a performative piece.
Goldsworthy's sculptural works can be as ephemeral as a sliver of ice, or as enduring as a wall of
stones. Prominent among his ephemeral works are the “throws," of sand, bracken, sticks, water,
snow, or other materials, in which Goldsworthy hurls a mass of material into the air, and then
photographs the event's peak moment as a performative corollary of the making of the sculpture.
In other ephemeral works Goldsworthy's physical presence is more remote, for example a trail of
leaves fastened together with thorns and let go in a river to flow away and disperse.
In response to a recent question as to whether the connection between performative works and
the more permanent works, such as the screens, is still important, Goldsworthy answered:
“Especially with the cattails it is interesting that when you throw them it seems as if they are
structured. Somehow you create this structure in chaos. And I suppose, one of the reasons that I
generally have to do most of the making of the piece is that I can “stop”. What I don't want is
someone creating a self-conscious structure to it. It has to break the frame. It has to feel as if it has
fallen there...The pieces have to feel a little bit impossible.”
More information: Pia Hovi-Assad, exhibition curator, +358-044-7011089, pia.hovi-assad@pori.fi
www.poriartmuseum.fi
Preview for the media Thursday, 09 June, from 11 am to 12 pm
A curator talk and tour Friday, 10 June, at 12.
Guest Curator Juliette Kennedy will present the exhibition.
Andy Goldsworthy will lecture about his work at Ateneum Art Museum (Helsinki) Saturday, June 11th 2011 at 3 pm, free admission
Opening Friday, 10 June, at 6 pm
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