Exhibition
Artist as a hunter
11 Feb 2008 – 2 Mar 2008
Event times
Tue-Sun 11am-6pm
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- Unit 1.09, (first floor riverside) Oxo Tower Wharf
- London
- SE1 9PP
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Tube: Waterloo
About
Talk: Artist as a hunter 28 Feb at 7pm
Lorenzo Belenguer's work straddles the realms of sculpture, painting and drawing. In one area of his practice, he transforms metal objects into sculptures that evolve from the visual rhetoric of Minimalism and double as 'canvases'.
Belenguer is like a hunter who trawls the city for found objects, sometimes sourced as locally as the back garden of the studios' church. The work is then dictated by his discoveries, which include steel grids, a mattress reduced to its mesh of springs, and blacksmiths' tools. He intervenes with these structures by oxidising the metal elements in salt water or acids and dabbing them with paint of primary colours. This transforms how the objects are read, emphasising the points at which layers of meaning converge. (review by Dr Kathy Battista, King's College London, for the Florence Trust, 2007)