Phyllida Barlow
dal 18/11/2004 al 17/4/2005
Segnalato da
18/11/2004
Phyllida Barlow
Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead
Peninsula: a major new installation on Level 4. Barlow will make confrontational large-scale forms as well as smaller more intimate works. Strewn across the expanse of the gallery, the works explore the geographical and physical characteristicsof the site. This new opera is based on a series of recently realised projects which have combined physical precariousness with emotional intensity - to a point where the structures appear to be on the verge of collapse or implosion.
Peninsula
Phyllida Barlow makes large-scale work from what she describes as 'low-tec, mundane materials', such as house paint, Plaster of Paris, discarded plastic and wood. She applies these materials to the traditional craft of sculpture, where she interrogates the possibilities of form, mass, volume, space and scale. Often the complex internal construction of a work is revealed, showing pieced-together frameworks that appear battered, damaged, worn, repaired and mended. The construction is minimal, sometimes appearing unstable, and surfaces are often splattered and daubed with paint, the forms partially disguised or disfigured in what the artist describes as an act of emotional release.
BALTIC has commissioned Barlow to create a major new installation on Level 4. Entitled Peninsula, Barlow will make confrontational large-scale forms as well as smaller more intimate works. Strewn across the expanse of the gallery, the works explore the geographical and physical characteristicsof the site. This new work is based on a series of recently realised projects which have combined physical precariousness with emotional intensity - to a point where the structures appear to be on the verge of collapse or implosion.
From Friday 12 to Friday 19 November visitors will be able to watch this exhibition as it is installed from the Level 5 viewing platform.
A new publication about Phyllida Barlow is available from the BALTIC shop.
In conversation: Phyllida Barlow and Sacha Craddock Thursday 25 November, 18.30-19.30, FREE
Booking essential - call 0191 478 1810 or email events@balticmill.com
Gallery opening hours:
Monday - Sunday 10.00 - 18.00
Thursday 10.00 - 20.00
Image:
Phyllida Barlow, Untitled (2004)
Courtesy Program, London.
Peninsula
Level 4
BALTIC The Centre for Contemporary Art
South Shore Road, Gateshead NE8 3BA