WEIGHT FOR THE SHOWING : curated by Paul Carey-Kent

24 Apr-6 Jun 2015

Overview

Nicolas Feldmeyer, Christian Jankowski, Cipriano Martinez, Levi van Veluw, David Rickard, Livia Marin, Phyllida Barlow, Richard Serra, Richard Schur, Liv Fontaine. Of the many competitors for our attention when we look at a work of art – meaning, narrative, form, colour, gesture, scale, sound, movement – its weight is not generally high in the list, heavy as much sculpture and some painting may be (Bram Bogart's super-thick applications or Analia Saban's container canvases come to mind). Indeed, although WEIGHT FOR THE SHOWING is themed around weight, all the works have other interesting agendas, most notably perhaps the frequency with which they skew logic and the zest with which they engage with art history.