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Orange Foam, Cola Moon (1) 2020
Stainless steel, foam, polymer compound, pigments, nylon flock, crushed glass, reinforced plastics, horse hair, lightfittings
260 x 166 x 40 cm
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Orange Foam, Cola Moon (2) 2020
Stainless steel, foam, polymer compound, pigments, nylon flock, crushed glass, reinforced plastics, horse hair, lightfittings
276 x 129 x 33 cm
uMfazi 2020
Mixed media collage
60 x 48 x 4 cm
Boonoo 2020
Stainless steel, patinated bronze, brass, foam, polymer compound, pigments, adhesive, crushed glass, fused silica, crushed marble, light fittings
91 x 60 x 18 cm
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Atomic Double 2020
Stainless steel, painted bronze, foam, polymer compound, pigments, nylon flock, horse hair, crushed glass, reinforced plastics, neon
90 x 100 x 18 cm
Umuntu 2020
Mixed media collage
60 x 48 x 4 cm
Swamp Light 2020
Stainless steel, foam, polymer compound, pigments, crushed glass, granite, nylon flock, reinforced plastics, neon
110 x 70 x 18 cm
PSYCHOTROPICS
The New Art Centre
25 Jan – 22 Mar 2020
Nature in the 21st century re-imagined by artists working in the age of a digital wilderness.
Curated by Iwona Blazwick, Director of Whitechapel Gallery
Salvatore Arancio
Alice Channer
Andreas Eriksson
Diane Howse
Dan Perfect
Amy Stephens
Jonathan Trayte
The painters and sculptors in this exhibition bridge nature with culture to create new forms of abstraction. Flora and fauna are transfused with cartoonish iridescence; landscapes fragment; biomorphic forms erupt and mutate. The detached state of the digital is balanced by an immersion in materiality, texture and the pleasure of making.
Our physical experience of the natural world is being replaced by an optical one. New generations are engaging with reality via their screens. The finger may swipe and tap; but the hand is being replaced by the eye. The exhilaration of this virtual world is tempered by our acute awareness of the fragility of the natural world and how we compromise its survival.