Richard Deacon Exhibition
Marian Goodman Gallery
This event has ended.
On view will be new works which highlight Deacon’s virtuosity with materials and his recent investigations into volume, surface, seriality, as well as his continued exploration of the relationship between body and space, interior and exterior, the organic and structural, material object, drawing and language.
The exhibition will consist of four bent and twisted wooden works, sinuous forms infused with metal powders titled Aluminum, Copper, Iron, and Brass, which explore the dynamic tradition in Deacon’s work of organic and hybrid open/enclosed curvilinear forms. Three metal sculptures, of which two are multilayered, geometric folded metal works and incorporate hollowed solids and textured surfaces as in Four by Four and Foolish Pride, and one, a conjoined stainless steel work, Siamese Metal #7, which reveals the principle of aggregate construction and assembly from a compilation of shapes. Five powder-coated stainless works from his Alphabet series present matrices of trapezoidal, hexagonal, or octagonal forms adjoined to cavities of space and operate somewhere between drawing, wall relief, and freestanding sculpture. Three object-like stainless steel floor works from the Custom series, marked by their impermeable surface contours, originate from stainless steel tube and spinnings and refer to standardized products.
[Image: Richard Deacon "Alphabet J" (2012) Aluminium 146 x 215 x 4 cm.]
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Schedule
from November 29, 2012 to January 19, 2013
Opening Reception on 2012-11-28 from 18:00 to 20:00