Exhibition
David Altmejd. Magic Loop
19 Jan 2018 – 24 Feb 2018
Address
- 4-8 Helmet Row
- London
- EC1V 3QJ
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Tube / Metro: Old Street / Barbican
Event map
Modern Art is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of new works by David Altmejd. This is the artist’s fifth solo exhibition with Modern Art.
About
Over the course of the past fifteen years, David Altmejd has been working through questions about the relationship between the human body and larger energy systems of physics, electricity and biology. The forms his works take tend towards the fantastical; he builds up complex characters who occupy unfamiliar mythological narratives, all the while alluding to the inevitable destruction and decay of all biological matter.For this exhibition at Modern Art, Altmejd is presenting a dozen haut-reliefs in which casts of hands seem to be moving plaster around to form figures. These figures are then fragmented and seem to return to a state of abstract materiality. In these dynamic pieces, the acts of formation and disintegration become part of the same material loop.
