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Toby Ziegler / Charles Sargeant Jagger, No Man’s Land, 2014
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Alexandra Bircken, Mercedes and her Sisters, 2014
Exhibition
Conflict and Collisions: New Contemporary Sculpture
1 Oct 2014 – 25 Jan 2015
Event times
Tue – Sun, 10am – 5pm
Closed Mon, expect bank and school holidays
Third Thu of each month, 10am – 9pm
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- Gallery Walk
- Wakefield
England - WF1 5AW
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- FREE CITY BUS The gallery is on the FreeCityBus route operated Monday – Saturday between 9.30am and 3pm.
- The gallery is 0.3 miles from Wakefield Kirkgate train station (approximately 8 minutes walk) and 1 mile from Westgate train station (approximately 20 minutes walk).
Coinciding with the centenary of the First World War, the Hepworth Wakefield’s latest exhibition isn’t one show, but three solo exhibitions linked by an overarching interest in the evolution of warfare.
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German artist Alexandra Bircken presents ‘Eskalation’, a showcase of her latest works featuring her four-part 2014 work BUFF – a reference to the nickname of the American B-52 bomber that has been a ubiquitous presence in warfare since its introduction in 1955.
'The Holy Land’, a newly commissioned work by Dutch artist Folkert De Jong, draws on the Royal Armouries Museum collections for a striking installation populated by bronze casts of Henry VIII’s suits of armour and 20th-century weaponry.
Finally, British artist Toby Ziegler juxtaposes First World War memorial art with shocking images of 21st-century ‘war porn’ showing casualties from Iraq and Afghanistan. Ziegler’s three-part sculptural installation features a monumental sculpture of a human foot alongside Charles Sergeant Jagger’s 1919–20 memorial frieze No Man’s Land – its first public appearance in over 20 years.
