'If I was a sculptor (but then again no)'
Posted by BEARSPACE on 18.05.07
DRINKS RECEPTION: Thursday 24 May, 6-9pm with after event entertainment by Bob & Roberta Smith & special guest until 11 p.m.EXHIBITION OPEN: 25 May - 23 June, 2007 OPEN: WED - SAT 12.30-5 PM
CURATORS TALK: Saturday 23 June, 2 pm Complimentary voucher for at the Bear cafe provided.
BEARSPACE is delighted to present "If I was a sculptor (but then again, no)", an exhibition presenting five contemporary artists' responses to the tradition of relief sculpture. The exhibition takes a broad concept of 'relief sculpture', to include an array of wall-based sculptural objects. There is no painting or floor-based work. With different materials protruding from the walls, the exhibition will have a strongly physical aspect.
The artists here do not work within the art-historically dominant forms of painting and sculpture, rather their interests are more closely concerned with folk-art (wood carving, needlework) and/or utilitarian design (window display, shelving, signage). This type of art occupies a peculiar place, which shuns the fantasyland of pictorial illusion and monumental commemoration, in favour of the pleasure of base materials and daily ephemera.
