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WHAT IF? brings together recent work by Lynda Benglis in a wide range of media. Ceramics enter into a dialogue with cast polyurethane sculptures, foam paintings and a new, never previously exhibited work in aluminium, Relic (2014-2023). The selection showcases Benglis’s versatility across different techniques and materials, while also highlighting the dynamic interaction between apparent contradictions, such as organic and synthetic, fluidity and solidification, permanence and transience. The works further emphasise her abiding interest in motion, metamorphosis and the physical act of creation.
Lynda Benglis’s ceramics are the ultimate embodiment of physicality. They are also the works in which the artist’s hand is most evident. She embraces the primal qualities of clay, its tactile immediacy and organic mutability. Benglis eschews conventional tools and takes a manual approach to working the material. She twists, pokes, pulls, folds and pushes the clay into...More
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WHAT IF? brings together recent work by Lynda Benglis in a wide range of media. Ceramics enter into a dialogue with cast polyurethane sculptures, foam paintings and a new, never previously exhibited work in aluminium, Relic (2014-2023). The selection showcases Benglis’s versatility across different techniques and materials, while also highlighting the dynamic interaction between apparent contradictions, such as organic and synthetic, fluidity and solidification, permanence and transience. The works further emphasise her abiding interest in motion, metamorphosis and the physical act of creation.
Lynda Benglis’s ceramics are the ultimate embodiment of physicality. They are also the works in which the artist’s hand is most evident. She embraces the primal qualities of clay, its tactile immediacy and organic mutability. Benglis eschews conventional tools and takes a manual approach to working the material. She twists, pokes, pulls, folds and pushes the clay into...More
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