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Hauser & Wirth presents Phyllida Barlow’s ‘GIG’, the inaugural exhibition at Hauser & Wirth Somerset. Since the late 1960s, British artist Phyllida Barlow has focused on the physical experience of handling materials, which she transforms through layering, accumulation and juxtaposition.
Barlow’s direct and practical processes of making utilise readily available materials such as cardboard, cement and plaster, polystyrene,timber and paint. Barlow’s sculptural practice is grounded in an anti-monumental tradition and is concerned with the relationship between objects and the space that surrounds them.
On first entering the gallery the viewer encounters a jubilant cacophony of brightly coloured fabric pompoms suspended from a timber structure that extends up into the rafters of the Threshing Barn. Moving through the pompoms past ‘untitled: pianoframeandcover’ into the adjoining Workshop gallery, the entrance appears to be blocked by a tightly bound mass of studio detritus fixed to a surface of painted plywood sheets. The room is so densely packed with precarious and unwieldy forms jostling for space that one of the sculptural objects has been forced outside, to be viewed from the
gallery window.
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