Luisa Lambri and Office KGDVS: From Details to Architecture
Luisa Lambri’s photographs on surfaces of sculptures form a dialogue between photography and architecture with scenography designed by Office KGDVS. At Thomas Dane Gallery in London, UK, until 9 January 2016.
Italian photographer Luisa Lambri’s visual exploration of sculptures of artists Donald Judd, Lygia Clark, Charlotte Posenenske and Barbara Hepworth is the one of the two concurrent exhibitions on architecture, photography and sculpture at Thomas Dane Gallery in London. Concurring with exhibition Blind Architecture curated by Douglas Fogle, Luisa Lambri’s photographs reveal a fascinating view on the details of the surfaces of sculptures from artists whose works are also shown in Blind Architecture.
In her third exhibition for Thomas Dane Gallery, Lambri shifts her attention from light and space of modernist architecture to the details of skins of abstract post-war modernist sculptures. She treats the surface of Donald Judd’s aluminium box sculptures as a reflective lens that casts light back as a ghostly afterimage, and focuses on the hard-edged hinges of Lygia Clark’s bichos, hinged aluminium geometric sculptures. She approaches playful convex and concave shapes of Charlotte Posenenske’s aluminium sheet metal sculptures to reveal the invisible perceptual infinities of the fold, and perceives an aperture of Barbara Hepworth’s abstract work as a portal into another world that also reflects on her interest in how architecture frames the natural world. The modernist scenography of the exhibition, designed by Belgian architecture firm Office Kersten Geers David Van Severen, echoes the strict, geometrical corners and details of Lambri’s works. The space creates a dialogue between the images and architecture and emphasise the visual language of the images.
Luisa Lambri with Office KGDVS at Thomas Dane Gallery in London, UK, from 20 November 2015–9 January 2016. The exhibition concurs with exhibition Blind Architecture, curated by Douglas Fogle.
Main image
Luisa Lambri: Untitled [Four-Square (Walk Through, #01)], 2015. Courtesy the artist and Thomas Dane Gallery, London.
[Edit 4 January 2016: Extended opening time – the exhibition will be open until 23 January 2016.]
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