Peter Startup
dal 19/10/2005 al 12/11/2005
Segnalato da
19/10/2005
Peter Startup
Poussin Gallery, London
This show is concentrated on the artist's metamorphic sculptures from the sixties. The works are made from assembled wood or plaster. Some of the pieces in wood have the capacity to morph into two or three different positions. They show subtlety and quality and have a continuing power to surprise and fascinate viewers.
Sculpture
In co-operation with the artist's son, Jasper Startup, Poussin Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of the work of the sculptor Peter Startup (1921-1976).
The show is the first major presentation of Startup's work for ten years and a part of the inaugural exhibition series at Poussin, London's new abstract art gallery.
This show concentrates on Startup's metamorphic sculptures from the sixties. The sculptures are made from assembled wood (some with leather straps and plastic) or plaster. Some of the pieces in wood have the capacity to morph into two or three different positions.
Startup's works are not easily pigeon-holed and are held in the highest regard by artists and the art establishment alike. They show subtlety and quality and have a continuing power to surprise and fascinate viewers.
''My work is made with assembled wood, discarded furniture, machine-moulded parts, machine-sawn planks, etc. They are part of the discarded junk of urban life and through them I want to find relationships which surprise and excite me, and that project an image through the terms of classical sculpture - that is, in terms of space and volume.
It is with these assembled parts that I hope to find analogies with the sensuous, and discover qualities of compression, density and weight that will state the mood that has kept me going throughout the making of the work.''
Peter Startup 1963
Peter Startup was born in 1921 in London, where he lived and worked. His career as an artist in the public eye began at Roland Browse & Delbanco in 1952, and included a one-man show at the ICA (1963); British Sculpture in the Sixties at the Tate Gallery (1965); participation in Forma Viva in Yugoslavia (1966); and New Work 2 at the Hayward Gallery (1975-6).
He was head of the department of sculpture at Wimbledon School of Art at the time of his death from a heart condition in 1976. Retrospective shows have included the Serpentine Gallery (1977); the Morley Gallery (1981); and Yorkshire Sculpture Park (1995).
Opening: 20 October
Poussin Gallery
Block K, 175 Bermondsey Street, London