Lucy + Jorge Orta
dal 12/7/2013 al 2/11/2013
Segnalato da
12/7/2013
Lucy + Jorge Orta
Longside Gallery, Wakefield
At Yorkshire Sculpture Park. This important exhibition presents a new work, demonstrating a shift in their practice toward floor-based sculptures of significant scale and presence, alongside contextualising wall-hung refuge wear and ceramic pieces on plinths.
An exhibition of new and critically acclaimed work by Lucy + Jorge Orta
opens at Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP) on 13 July 2013. Located in YSP's
Longside Gallery and the open air, this exhibition revolves around the
theme of water, central to the Ortas' practice, and demonstrates a shift
toward floor-based sculptures, given context through works from the
'Clouds' series, wall-hung 'Refuge Wear', and ceramic sculptures. The
exhibition launches two new works: 'The Raft of Medusa' and 'Spirits of the
Huveaune - Ubelka', a life-size bronze for the open air from the Ortas'
ongoing 'Spirits' series. The Ortas' monumental work 'Cloud | Meteoros' was
recently unveiled at St Pancras International.
Inspired by their global research trips, the Ortas' collaborative practice
explores some of the 21st century's most pressing issues regarding the
environment and sustainable development, habitat and community, mobility,
migration and climate change.
Lucy + Jorge Orta at Yorkshire Sculpture Park is an opportunity to trace
the development of the Ortas' investigation of these issues and the way in
which they imagine possible solutions. A major new installation, 'The Raft
of Medusa', creates a central narrative for the exhibition, inspired by
Gericault's 1818/19 shipwreck painting 'Le Radeau de Meduse' and Yorkshire
Sculpture Park's lakes. The work uses flotation oil drums and the humble
plastic bottle as symbols for multiple ecological, economic and social
meanings: readily available waste materials that are also a building block
for a variety of spatial constructions including, sometimes, a home. The
sculpture speaks of water and its relationship to human survival and
destruction.
The 'Clouds' sculptures, developed from the 'OrtaWater' series, also
feature in the exhibition and are the result of a research trip to Moqattam
in Cairo where a whole community lives on a rubbish mountain. 70,000 people
survive by sorting and recycling the city's waste, assembling thousands of
disused water bottles into strange organic structures. 'OrtaWater' deals
with the scarcity of water, issues surrounding its privatisation and
corporate systems of control. Through 'Clouds' the Ortas develop these
complex lines of enquiry, imagining design prototypes for a sustainable
future.
For further information, images or to arrange an interview please contact:
Louise@suttonpr.com / +44(0) 20 7183 3577
Opening: 13 July 2013
Longside Gallery
Yorkshire Sculpture Park
West Bretton - Wakefield WF4 4LG
Opening Hours:
11am - 4pm daily
Free admission