Exhibition
Shaping the Void
09 Sep 2016 – 24 Sep 2016
Bankley Studios and Gallery
Levenshulme, United Kingdom
Exhibition
Shaping the Void, II
3 Mar 2017 – 31 Mar 2017
Event times
Weekends, Midday - 6pm
Cost of entry
free
Address
- Unit 8 Rich Estate
- 46 Willow Walk
- London
England - SE1 5SF
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- 1 & 78 stop outside on Grange Road, 42 & 188 stop Tower Bridge Road/Grange Road
- Bermondsey, London Bridge, Borough
- Canada Water then bus No 1 to Grange Road
Event map
This exhibition presents eight artists exploring notions of nothingness. Offering different entry points into ideas of the void, the works share a visual language rooted in abstraction and minimalism.
About
Following the first instalment of 'Shaping the Void' at Bankley Gallery in Manchester, the second part of the exhibition expands the concept of the void as interpreted in eastern philosophy and spirituality, with the aim to invite additional interpretations within contemporary practice. Touching on shared ideas surrounding presence and absence, formlessness, time and space, impermenance and stillness, these works suggest a more secular understanding of the void as nothingness.
Working across painting, printmaking, site-specific drawing and sculpture, the artists reveal a hidden view in a search for an essence of something seen, felt or experienced. The works ask questions rather than give answers; call for intuition rather than logic; and open up a space for contemplation and intimacy.
