Exhibition
Michael Dean. NOW NOW NOW NOW (Working Title) 2015
12 Oct 2015 – 31 Jan 2016
Regular hours
- Tuesday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 11:00 – 18:00
Address
- 16 Narrow Quay
- Bristol, BS1 4QA
- Bristol
England - BS1 4QA
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Most city centre bus services stop within walking distance of Arnolfini. The nearest stops are at The Centre and Queen Square.
- Arnolfini is a 15 minute walk from Bristol Temple Meads railway station. A taxi rank can be found outside the station.
NOW NOW NOW NOW (Working Title), 2015, is a new artwork commissioned especially for the Harris and Co building near Arnolfini on Narrow Quay.
About
Michael Dean works with sculpture, photography, performance and drawing. Made from cast concrete or other industrial materials, his sculptures seek a direct physical relationship with the human body. Their rough but delicate surfaces have the appearance of fossils or archaeological remains, and emphasise a tactile as much as visual experience.
Dean is interested in using language in its different incarnations to explore the relationship between ideas and form. Language, understood as something we intimately share and use to communicate, perceive and shape the world around us, occupies an important position in his practice. Dean’s sculptures evolve from his extensive writing and give physical form to words in the artist's own three-dimensional ‘fonts’, visible for example in triangular lines on the sculptures, or the forms of the works themselves.
NOW NOW NOW NOW (Working Title), 2015, is a site specific work for the Harris and Co building. Dean has interrupted wooden hoarding as a sculptural element, a large structure which is angled typographically to illegibly spell out the words “now...now...now…now”. The surface is fly-posted in a moth-like moraine of hand cut collaged mountain faces. This cryptic geometric landscape stretches along Farrs Lane and Narrow Quay, suggesting a monumental abstract geography at the intersection between the public space of the harbourside and the evolving building behind.
