Exhibition

The Eccentricity of Zero | Sinta Tantra

20 May 2013 – 4 Nov 2013

Regular hours

Tuesday
10:00 – 18:00
Wednesday
10:00 – 18:00
Thursday
10:00 – 18:00
Friday
10:00 – 18:00
Saturday
10:00 – 18:00
Sunday
10:00 – 18:00

Cost of entry

FREE

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Royal Society of Sculptors

London, United Kingdom

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  • C1 and 430
  • South Kensington and Gloucester Road
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Royal British Society of Sculptors is delighted to announce a celebration of female sculptors, Napoleon Garden, Holland Park

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To celebrate the work of female sculptors for the second year of the collaboration between the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea and the Royal British Society of Sculptors, we are delighted to present Sinta Tantra's ambitious glass sculpture. The sculpture, comprising two monumental glass circles overlaid with geometric and triumphantly coloured sections, echoes both the rigid lines of the formal gardens surrounding it and its riotous floral displays. It playfully invites people to walk inside it and to bathe in the pools of coloured light cast both on the ground and on the bodies of people passing through. Neat hedges, ௬‚owers and framed seating provide a theatrical setting for measured play where one can see, be seen, hide and be hidden. The work becomes a giant sundial casting kaleidoscopic patterns that crescendo and decrescendo as the days and seasons pass, fusing fleeting time with the permanence of material. Tantra says, "The sculpture plays on the idea of the garden as a labyrinth, of lovers chasing each other, of veiled flirtations and words left unspoken. The round glass panels act like fluid screens where organic, human and architectural structures are contained, heightened and reflected. As sunlight passes through the geometric spreads of colour, nature and the viewer become incorporated into the work and act as the catalysts to enliven it." The formal gardens with their neat hedges, flowers and framed seating provides a theatrical setting of recreational play where one can see, be seen, and be hidden. As sunlight passes through the geometric spreads of colour, nature becomes an active creator of art as opposed to merely its backdrop. Read more at http://www.rbs.org.uk/whats-on or contact Claire Mander, Curator at info@rbs.org.uk or on 020 7373 8615 or @RBS_sculptors

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