PRESS PREVIEW: Saturday 27 November. Free
bus from London departing Tate Britain, Millbank at 10 a.m.
Camilla Løw: Culture & Leisure
27 November 2010 –
30 January 2011
“My work is made in relation to the
space or context in which it will be seen, whether it is an outdoor piece,
public commission or an exhibition in a gallery or institution. The space
surrounding the sculptures, the architecture and the landscape is part of what
defines and shapes the works. The work is not concerned simply with histories of
art, but draws on everyday culture and experience, architecture, clothing,
dance, typography, all of the many forms that articulate the relationship
between people and their environment.” (Camilla Løw, 2010)
For this exhibition Camilla Løw will present a body of new works,
which share a grammar of form and construction: a base, a support, and one or
more attachments in vivid colours. Some recall familiar forms or symbols, whilst
others perform as abstract or architectural elements. The works function as
discrete objects, yet there are also relationships between pairings and groups.
And whilst each is a definite statement, their simple construction suggests they
can be disassembled and rearranged into an almost endless number of
configurations.
Made for the Gallery at the New Art Centre, where
architectural space merges with the parkland setting, the
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orks may be shown either indoors or out. Camilla Løw has created a
dialogue between the natural and the man-made, describing her sculptures as
“character and costume, scenery and action, appearing at once like a
landscape of upright and suspended shapes, a drawing in space or Dada
theatre.” Indeed, her exhibition here will appear like a stage set in
which a series of props stand silent and still, waiting to be activated in the
imagination of the viewer. The new works will be shown alongside a small number
of existing sculptures, of the type for which Camilla Løw has become well
known, which have not previously been exhibited. These comprise brightly
coloured, geometric structures balanced on concrete blocks, which reflect her
playful response to the rigours of Russian Constructivism and American
Minimalism.
Camilla Løw (born in 1976, Oslo) studied at the
School of Art in Glasgow and in Asker, Norway. She has exhibited widely in this
country, across Europe and in the USA. Her work is in a number of public
collections in Britain including the Government Art Collection and the Arts
Council, as well as in the National Museum for Art, Architecture and Design,
Oslo and the Ruppert Collection of post-1945 Concrete Art at the Museum in
Kultuspeicher, Würzberg.
PRESS PREVIEW: Saturday 27 November. Free bus from London
departing Tate Britain, Millbank at 10 a.m. and leaving Roche Court at 3 p.m.
Seats are limited. Please contact the New Art Centre to reserve a place. For
further information about the exhibition and for images, please contact Stephen
Feeke or Sarah Rancans on 01980 862244 or nac@sculpture.uk.com.
