Opening to the public May 5, 2012, the exhibition Helmut Lang: Sculptures will present a series of recent works from the artist's ongoing exploration into the liminal realm between abstraction and figuration. Co-curated by Mark Fletcher and Neville Wakefield, the exhibition will go on view at 24 Washington Square North and include more than twenty new sculptures by the artist.
Lang works with form, volume, light and the material history of objects. His materials - rubber, foam, plaster, sheepskin and tar - often have served previous functions that remain legible in the surfaces of his sculptures. Discs of rubber that once provided protection, for example, are assembled into totems whose softened edges record both the process of erosion and their progression from industrial object to gallery artifact. In such works the distress of found objects becomes the starting point for a larger meditation on acts of creative destruction and the gestures of reassembly and renewal that attend them.
Helmut Lang: Sculptures will be open to the public through June 15
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Co-orgaized by Mark Fletcher, Sadie Coles and Neville Wakefield, the exhibition will be open to the public at 24 Washington Square from Tuesday through Friday, 12PM to 5PM or by appointment.
