Video walkthrough of this group exhibition at Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art narrated by curator Natasha Hoare
Transparent Things uses Chapter 1 of Vladimir Nabokov’s novel as a script. In this brief text objects exert uncanny agency, pulling us back anecdotally and materially into their past, and catalysing radical perceptual shifts. This ‘script’ lends itself to an exploration of contemporary sculpture.
Artists have been invited to contribute works as co-readers of the text, with new works contributed by Michael Dean, Marie Lund, Virginia Overton, and Renee So, alongside works by Nairy Baghramian, Carlotta Bailly Borg, Becky Beasley, Gareth Cadwallader, Nina Canell, Theaster Gates, David Hammons, Lucy Skaer, Vladimir Nabokov and Kerry Tribe.
Virginia Overton, Untitled (cascade), 2020. Aluminium sign parts, ladders, steel drum, Uni-strut, water, pump, hose, sandbags and hardware. Commissioned by Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art, London. Courtesy of the artist and White Cube. Photo: Mark Blower.
Presented by Natasha Hoare Edited by Martin Kennedy
Renee So, Figures & Vessels, 2019. Stoneware, terracotta. Courtesy of the artist and Kate MacGarry. Photo: Mark Blower.Michael Dean, (Unfucking Titled) fucked dove / pigeon, 2020. Steel, cable ties, padlocks, concrete, customised scene tape, paperback books (Pollen, 2015). Courtesy of the artist and Herald St, London. Photo: Mark Blower.Theaster Gates, Sound Cube, 2019. Azobe, Hammond B3 Organ and Leslie speaker. Courtesy of the artist and White Cube. Photo: Mark Blower.Video walkthrough of this group exhibition at Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art narrated by curator Natasha Hoare.Renee So, Woman VI, 2020 (left). Terracotta. Commissioned by Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art, London. Courtesy of the artist and Kate MacGarry. Photo: Mark Blower.Virginia Overton, Untitled (gush), 2020. Aluminium sign parts. Commissioned by Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art, London. Courtesy of the artist and White Cube. Photo: Mark Blower.Gareth Cadwallader, Coffee, 2018-19. Oil on canvas. Courtesy of the artist. From the collection of Nick Goss. Photo: Mark Blower.Transparent Things, installation view, Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art, London 2020. Photo: Mark Blower.Nina Canell, Gum Shelf, 2017. Mastic gum, steel. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Mark Blower.
As her new show, Commodities – Sculpture and Ceramics, opens at Compton Verney, Renee So takes us on a guided tour, and explains how the museum’s collection of Chinese artefacts led her to think more about exploitation and colonisation, the commodification of objects, and what…
This fabulous show is dedicated to Mingei, the influential folk-craft movement developed in Japan in the 1920s and 30s, in which traditional craft objects and unnamed artisans are valued for their cultural worth and aesthetic purity
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