British artist Phyllida Barlow creates sculptures and large-scale installations that infuse humble materials such as cardboard, fabric, plywood, and cement with a boundless energy, persuading the viewer to experience form rather than reflexively projecting narrative and meaning. ‘glimpse’, the artist’s first solo Los Angeles exhibition in her five decades-long career, will feature all new large-scale works in the gallery’s Downtown Los Angeles complex. Here Barlow will respond to the conditions of the site: the works will be made and assembled in situ. Within the Neoclassical South Gallery, she will create a structure reminiscent of a stage that serves as a proscenium for the surrounding works. A staircase suspended on stilts will occupy the upper realm of the gallery space, dreamlike but assertively physical. Visitors will be able to walk through and around the sculptures, advancing Barlow’s longstanding penchant for exploring the ways in which sculpture can create different realms of experience.
Hauser & Wirth Publishers recently released Phyllida Barlow: Collected Lectures, Writings, and Interviews a career-spanning publication assembling 50 texts by Barlow. This reader illuminates Barlow’s thoughts on art, making, teaching, drawing, and other artists, and provides a wonderful accompaniment to the works on view in the exhibition.
Press release courtesy Hauser & Wirth.
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