Exhibition
Spencer Finch
1 Apr 2016 – 7 May 2016
Regular hours
- Friday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Address
- 29 & 52-54 Bell Street
- London
- NW1 5BY
- United Kingdom
The edge of perception is explored in Spencer Finch’s third solo exhibition at Lisson Gallery London.
About
The American artist tests the limits of objectivity, pursuing poetic ends with scientific clarity. Through a new installation, light-boxes, watercolours and pastels, Finch analyses the points at which conventional vision vanishes to become something else and examines the subjective lens of each individual through discrete bodies of work.
Finch holds up an enchanted prism between the outer world and inner thought. Artworks on display consider a variety of instances in which perception is challenged and transformed: the peripheries of vision, the obfuscations of fog and the fall of darkness, camera distortions, the view of the world experienced by different species, in this case bees. Inspired by Emily Dickinson’s poetry and by the movement of bees, Finch has attempted to track and map the complex paths taken in the delivery and exchange of pollen. Proceeding through careful observation, measurement and precision, Finch’s art translates the complexities of the natural world into arrangements of colour and light that are simultaneously abstract and representational, technically devised yet auratic in their effect.