Edwards, Laurence, Laurence Edwards , 2024
- Title(s):
- Laurence Edwards : making strange.
- Additional Title(s):
- Making strange
- Published/Created:
- [London] : Messums, 2024.
- Physical Description:
- 106 pages : illustrations ; cm
- Holdings:
- Reference LibraryNJ18.E364 A12 2024 (LC) OversizeAccessible in the Reference Library [Hours]
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- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/17466665
- Classification:
- Books
- Notes:
- Catalog of an exhibition held at Messums, London ; May 29th - June 29th, 2024.
"This exhibition showcased new work by sculptor Laurence Edwards following an intense period of modelling in miniature. A series of bronze heads entitled 'Audience' headline the show -- diminutive portraits which grin, grimace and frown at the viewer with a disarming old world medieval charm. These visages were accompanied by a new series of running figures, an evolution of Edwards's 'Walking Men' series. 'Flight' is a frieze of running men all looking anxiously over their shoulders as they flee a threat unknown, they run with a wary instinct, whatever lurks behind is not right and it is not good. The rest of the exhibition in the main consisted of larger heads, busts and stupefied figures reacting to and negotiating an unnerving world that continues to challenge and at times threaten. This included new dissipated figures by Edwards, a further development which originated with Leaf Man (2010). By breaking up the visible surface of the body, these works reveal the nature of the cast itself, whilst also pointing to the act of looking, and to surfaces being only the visible aspect of a largely invisible whole: the body and what it contains. These works were accompanied by a series of prints showing Edwards' engagement with the two-dimensional image in relation to his sculptural practice, and particularly his experimentation with etching"--Website. - Subject Terms:
- Edwards, Laurence -- Exhibitions.Human figure in art -- Exhibitions.Sculptors -- Great Britain -- Exhibitions.Sculpture, Modern -- 21st century -- Exhibitions.
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