William Cruickshank
dal 17/4/2008 al 10/5/2008
Segnalato da
17/4/2008
William Cruickshank
Coleman Projects, London
Artist's sculptural entities offer poetic meditations on how things work and the roles that objects play in specific contexts and locations. Taking a whatever-comes-to-hand approach to the scientific experiment, Cruickshank utilises the physical properties of familiar items in ways that question our predefined need or desire for them.
William Cruickshank’s sculptural entities offer poetic meditations on how things work and the roles that objects play in specific contexts and locations. Taking a whatever-comes-to-hand approach to the scientific experiment, Cruickshank utilises the physical properties of familiar items in ways that question our predefined need or desire for them.
The ideas for his inventions – whether flying a bike over the rooftops of a Chinese village, creating the perfect cappuccino cocoa circle with a record deck or developing a sausage tree as solution to the demands of mass feeding as precipitated by an international residency – often arise out of his day-to-day experiences within given places. Such economy of means, if not necessarily scale, brings to mind Fluxus experimentation and the empirical investigation of Swiss sculptor Roman Signer.
Cruickshank proposes a holistic approach to the building and its location – a single operative element, or perhaps several that connect the nature and various functions of the site. As a gallery space, studio and home with a curious past, Coleman offers many interesting architectural facets and historical details from which to respond. As for the kinetic proposition that might emerge here from the subsection of domestic, art and architectural concerns, the only thing one can be sure of is that Cruickshank’s spidery inventiveness will extend as far as the amalgamated materials themselves dictate.
Opening Friday 18th April 6 – 10 pm
Coleman Projects
94 Webster Road, London
free admission