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13/2/2014

Roelof Louw / Hannah Rickards

Modern Art Oxford, Oxford

Continuing to review the history of exhibitions at Modern Art Oxford in the lead up to the 50th anniversary in 2016, we present a selection of works by conceptual artist Roelof Louw. In his 1969 seminal installation Location at the gallery, Louw installed a continuous black rubber band stretching horizontally around the four walls of the Upper Gallery. The complex relationship between physical space, sculpture and viewer explored in his early works is seen in Soul City (Pyramid of Oranges), a carefully constructed pyramid of 6,000 oranges which gradually disappears as visitors help themselves to fruit. Hannah Rickards' meticulously researched and executed works explore the elusive landscape of perception, language and translation. Her attention is particularly drawn to natural phenomena such as thunder, mirage and the aurora borealis. She closely examines these occurrences - and how we experience them - through moving image, sound and installation works. This absorbing exhibition presents an artist whose work is resolutely and appropriately difficult to categorise. It brings together Rickards' most recognised pieces alongside a new work exhibited here for the first time, inviting us to encounter and enjoy the complexity, limitations and intense beauty of language. Preview friday 14 February, 6.30pm.

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