CONRAD SHAWCROSS
"FROM THAT WHICH IT CAME"
OPENING RECEPTION: SATURDAY 27 OCTOBER, 17.00 — 19.30 HRS



Galerie Gabriel Rolt is delighted to present the first solo exhibition in the Netherlands by the British artist Conrad Shawcross. Shawcross’ work interrogates past quests for knowledge and ideas of certainty. His enigmatic sculptures and mechanical installations combine meticulous design and engineering while dealing ideas within physics andmetaphysics.  
Shawcross creates his captivating montages using a wide variety of materials and technologies, regularly working on an epic scale. For Galerie Gabriel Rolt, the artist has selected a multi-faceted body of work that challenges the everyday perceptions such as space, time and philosophy. 

	A major new piece is Pre-Retroscope (Amsterdam Journey, 2012) , − which interferes between urban performance and installation art. Shawcross will head out on a voyage through the canals of the city in a specially adapted rowboat, capturing the expedition on film with his bespoke panoramic camera setup. The vessel will then be presented in the gallery where it will retell the journey which it undertook a few days before.   
	The Limit of Everything (2010), the second work in the show is a mechanical sculpture that conveys aspects of space light and time.  This complex system consists of a rotating articulated tri-arm that slowly expands and then contracts in the space creating a constant interplay of constancy and  change. 
	Perimeter Studies - Icosahedron (Arrangement 2 a-d, 2012) − continue the artists  ongoing investigation into the radiant properties of the platonic solids. This new sequence in aluminium investigates the twenty sided Icosahedron. Formal rather than mechanical the series touch upon similar notions of expansion and contraction as in the Limit of Everything. 
	A fourth set of works comprises the Harmonic Drawings (2009), made by an apparatus based on the Victorian ‘Harmonograph’ and a modern ECG machine. These analogue ink-on-paper drawings visual descriptions of a chord falling into silence. 
	The final series set of work after which the show takes its title are called From that which it came (2012) .  A set of long glass cabinets contain a sequence of a sequence of strange hyperbolic forms that have been drawn on a lathe from a rod of nylon. Essentially the by-product of making a hole these white cloudlike forms sit next to the cone from which they have emerged or been born , twisted and folded in on themselves they powerfully describe the perplexing relation between the centre and periphery of a spinning disk. 
	
British artist Conrad Shawcross (1977) was educated at the Slade School of Art (London) and the Ruskin School of Art (Oxford). His work has been exhibited at institutions and galleries worldwide - including solo presentations - at The National Gallery (London, 2012), MUDAM (Luxembourg, 2012), The Pace Gallery (New York, 2010), Art Brussels (2009) and The Saatchi Gallery (London, 2004), among others. Besides his personal work, Shawcross completed several public realm commissions including installations for the Unilever Building (London, 2007), The Oxford Science Park (2010) and Measure Arts (Kingsway Tram Tunnel, London, 2009). Shawcross currently resides and works in London.


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Upcoming:
CONRAD SHAWCROSS
FROM THAT WHICH IT CAME
27 OCTOBER - 02 DECEMBER 2012
Opening Reception: Saturday 27 October 2012,
17.00 — 19.30 hrs.