Eric Bainbridge / Simon Martin
dal 27/9/2012 al 1/12/2012
Segnalato da
27/9/2012
Eric Bainbridge / Simon Martin
Camden Arts Centre, London
Bainbridge's 'Steel Sculptures' shows a series of new works made from reclaimed steel and other more incongruous materials, drawing himself closer to the modernist abstraction of the '50s and '60s embodied by sculptors David Smith and Anthony Caro. For UR Feeling, Simon Martin brings together a selection of objects and images from artists and designers including Ettore Sottsass, Scott Burton and Stephen Shore.
Eric Bainbridge
Steel Sculptures
Eric Bainbridge presents a series of new works made from reclaimed steel and other more incongruous materials, drawing himself closer to the modernist abstraction of the 1950s and ‘60s embodied by sculptors David Smith and Anthony Caro. The sculptures extend his practice of collage, combining both formal and unexpected elements and reveal the duality which has run throughout his career.
Bainbridge has always been interested in the surface of things and previous sculptural works have incorporated materials such as fake fur and wood-effect melamine. Often described as kitsch, his preferred materials are found in second hand shops, scrap metal yards and DIY stores; his sculptures reconsider the value of the readily available and cheap. He has blown objects up to outsize proportions, covered them and piled them up in a variety of balancing acts. Bainbridge incorporates multiple components and reference points, including concepts and inspiration from art history and today’s cultural field.
Working across a wide array of media spanning video, installation and collage, Bainbridge’s interests continuously expand to absorb society’s constant changes in style, thought, fashion and taste.
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Simon Martin
UR Feeling
For UR Feeling, Simon Martin brings together a selection of objects and images from artists and designers including Ettore Sottsass, Scott Burton and Stephen Shore. It is an investigation into affect and the state between knowing and sensing, in relationship to materiality and the built environment. Martin’s collection forms an open ended dialogue around the ideas and influences which form the basis of his artistic research.
Martin’s work reflects upon material culture; he is interested in how we understand ourselves through social structures, mythologies and collective memory evidenced in art objects, mass media, popular culture and the built environment. The exhibition will be punctuated by discussions, performances and film screenings involving writers and artists.
UR Feeling also acts as research for a new film which Martin is developing.
Opening 28 september
Camden Arts Centre
Arkwright Road - London
Opening times:
Tuesday - Sunday 10am - 6pm
Wednesday 10am - 9pm
Closed Mondays and Bank Holiday