Boule to Braid curated by Richard Wentworth

Name: Boule to Braid curated by Richard Wentworth
Start: 2009-06-24T10:00:00.000+01:00
End: 2009-08-15T17:00:00.000+01:00
Location: 52 Bell Street

London, 24 June – 15 August 2009

Francis Alÿs, Carl Andre, Vladimir Arkhipov, Art & Language, David Batchelor, Ila Beka & Louise Lemoine, Vanessa Billy, Terrence Bond, Marcel Broodthaers, Daniel Buren, Scott Burton, James Casebere, Patrick Caulfield, Hussein Chalayan, Alice Channer, Tony Cragg, Dorothy Cross, Richard Deacon, Charlie Engman, Walker Evans, John Frankland, Martino Gamper, Ryan Gander, Liam Gillick, Dan Graham, Colin Guillemet, Hans Haacke, Susan Hiller, Donald Judd, On Kawara, Igor & Svetlana Kopystiansky, John Latham, Bob Law, Sol LeWitt, Sarah Lucas, Bigas Luna, Robert Mangold, Helen Marten, Gordon Matta-Clark, Paul McCarthy, John McCracken, Jeff McMillan, Haroon Mirza, Jonathan Monk, Bruce Nauman, Matt O’dell, Yoko Ono, Tony Oursler, Julian Opie, Giulio Paolini, Bridget Riley, Boo Ritson, Tom Sachs, Roman Signer, Sean Snyder, Lee Ufan, Warburg Archive Material, Franz West, Richard Wentworth, Sharon Ya’ari

In Richard Wentworth's 'Thinking Aloud' artists including Karin Ruggaber, Keith Coventry, Patrick Caulfield, and Simon Starling's pirated do-it-yourself Eames chairs, Tom Sachs and Bruce Nauman came together with a Frank Gehry model, snowed under by an enormous assortment of material harvested from both private and museum sources. The show converged the territories that artists like to discuss: war, economics, technology, history, geography etc. People who saw this exhibition speak of their experience with a giddy reverence.

In 'Boule to Braid', Wentworth will employ similar strategies, this time paying particular attention to Nicholas Logsdail's personal collection and historic works from artists beyond the Lisson's own forty year narrative.Wentworth has remarked "as exhibitionism in private galleries, foundations and museums (both personal and public) have coalesced, I detect a pattern of exhibition making which I associate with the philately of my childhood. I hope to chastise this tendency in the way that 'Boule to Braid' comes together".

Richard Wentworth is known both as an artist and as a chronicler of daily life. Since the 1970s he has played a leading role in British sculpture, isolating both the formal and sculptural qualities of everyday objects. Wentworth looks closely at the present by espousing the past. Looking back, he says, enables us to understand why and how we move forward. By excavating history and looking closely at the material 'now',

Wentworth often collates and assembles a vivacious archaeology of the world we live in.

Wentworth is exhibiting two new works, 'Legend' and 'Awning' in this year's Venice Biennale, showing in both the Italian Pavilion and the Arsenale as part of Daniel Birnbaum's 'Making Worlds', 7 June – 22 November 2009.

He is currently exhibiting in the Montreal Biennale and his work, 'A Confiscation of String', is one of the new works installed and developing over 365 days at the reopened Whitechapel Art Gallery. In 2002 Wentworth worked with Artangel at King's Cross, London to make 'An Area of Outstanding Unnatural Beauty'. In 2005, Tate Liverpool presented a comprehensive exhibition including works such as 'False Ceiling', 1995 and 'Mirror Mirror', 2003. His faux botanical guide, using enamel signs, at this years Folkestone Triennial was one of the star contributions of the show. Wentworth lives and works in London.

Lecture

In conjunction with the exhibition, Richard will be talking about his work and his mounting of 'Boule to Braid' at the Geological Society Lecture Room, Royal Academy, London on Wednesday 24th June, 6.30 - 7.30pm.

Installation views 29 Bell Street and 52 - 54 Bell Street

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Location

52 Bell Street
London

Opening Times:
Monday – Friday: 10:00am – 6:00pm
Saturday: 11:00am – 5:00pm