Phyllida Barlow, untitled: upturnedhouse, 2, 2012. timber, plywood, scrim, cement, polystyrene, polyfiller, paint, varnish. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth.
Phyllida Barlow
…later
5 November – 22 December 2012
at Hauser & Wirth, New York
Opening on Monday 5 November 2012, 18.00 – 20.00
For more than forty years, the urban environment has preoccupied Phyllida Barlow and provided a fecund source for her process-oriented sculpture. Construction debris, signs, fences, and discarded objects are the sorts of unloved materials she adopts, assembles, and paints colorfully and crudely into sculptural forms that are simultaneously menacing and playful, overwhelming and delicate. Incorporating intimately scaled objects and enormous forms alike, her jammed-to-the-rafters installations actively engage viewers by drawing them among, under, and around obstacles in much the same way that the city does on a daily basis. Barlow explains that she is compelled by ‘the way things are replaced, destroyed, and covered over very quickly’ in the world around us, to fashion analogs for the joys and fears of everyday life. ‘The work,’ she has said, ‘is completely about the fragility of existence’. [read the full text here]
Hauser & Wirth
32 East 69th Street
New York NY 10021
www.hauserwirth.com
Opening hours:
Tuesday – Saturday, 10.00 – 18.00
Phyllida Barlow, untitled: crater, 2012. polystyrene, carpet felt, cement, scrim, paint, PVA. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth