Phyllida Barlow at Hauser & Wirth London

Phyllida Barlow
untitled: broken shelf 2
2011
Timber lengths, plaster, scrim, fabric
45 x 90 x 40 cm / 17 3/4 x 35 3/8 x 15 3/4 in
© Phyllida Barlow
Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth
Photo: Stefan Altenburger Photography Zürich

Phyllida Barlow at Hauser & Wirth London Phyllida Barlow’s anti-monumental sculptures made of low-grade materials come to the Hauser & Wirth Gallery, London, in the artist’s debutexhibition with the gallery.

2 September – 22 October 2011

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Source: Hauser & Wirth / theartwolf.com

For over four decades, Phyllida Barlow has used inexpensive, low-grade materials to create large-scale, three-dimensional collages. These “anti-monumental sculptures” are often crudely painted in industrial or synthetic colours, resulting in works that reveal “the dynamics of their making“.

The gallery explains in a press note that “Barlow has created a group of works that brings the cacophony of the gallery’s external surroundings inside“, adding that “The verticality and mass of the sculptures (…) takes over the entire building from the basement to the attic“.

Phyllida Barlow was born in 1944 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, and worked at the Slade School of Art as Professor of Fine Art for nearly 40 years. She has recently exhibited at the Serpentine Gallery, London, and at the Kunstverein Nürnberg, Nuremberg. After the show at the Hauser & Wirth Gallery, Barlow will exhibit at the Museum Ludwig, Cologne.

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