Descripción de la Exposición
NOTA: LA FECHA DE CIERRE INDICADA ES SÓLO ORIENTATIVA.
Antunes ha sido comisionada por The Box para crear un nuevo diseño de las ventanas del lado este, junto con una serie de nuevas obras escultóricas. Además de la ventana de vidrio fundido, Antunes ha creado tres componentes principales para St Luke’s, incluido una nueva obra sobre el piso, una serie de esculturas colgantes de cuerda, cuero y latón que hacen referencia a los amarres de los barcos históricos en Plymouth y a los candelabros de vidrio de Murano soplado a mano que reflejan el patrón del piso, los colores de la ventana y las columnas originales de la iglesia. Dichos elementos no solamente juegan con el movimiento, la sombra, la textura y la división del espacio, sino que deliberadamente desdibujan la línea en la que termina la arquitectura del edificio y comienza el arte.
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For the first exhibition in St Luke’s, Leonor Antunes has been commissioned by The Box to create a new east window design, alongside a series of new sculptural works.
Antunes’ practice explores the possibilities of sculpture to connect with architecture and design. Melding the unfamiliar with the familiar, she uses materials such as rope, leather and glass, associated with ancient craft traditions, to highlight the histories embedded within material production. The painstaking, considered nature of her work also provides a timely counter-balance to our increasingly digitised, fast-paced world.
“I really believe that art exists in a context, so I do not see my sculptures outside of the space where they exist” [Leonor Antunes]
In addition to the fused glass window, Antunes has created three main components for St Luke’s, including a new floor work, a series of rope, leather and brass hanging sculptures that resonate with historic ships’ rope making in Plymouth, hand blown Murano glass pendant lights and slatted partitions, which respectively mirror the pattern of the floor, the colours in the window and the church’s original columns. These varied elements not only play with movement, shade, texture and division in space, but deliberately blur the line between where the building’s architecture ends and her art starts.
With Antunes’ interest in work created by pioneer women, the window’s design is inspired by a detail from the marbled end papers from the book Insects of Surinam, first published in 1705 by one of the foremost naturalists of her time, Maria Sibylla Merian (The Box has an original copy dated 1726 – on display in the Cottonian Reading Room). The floor work, titled Discrepancies with L.C., was produced in Plymouth, and is an enlarged version of a 1955 painting by Brazilian artist Lygia Clark. Both these figures, in different times and manners, questioned what was considered to be the norm.
Exposición. 17 ene de 2025 - 22 feb de 2025 / carlier / gebauer - Madrid 2 / Madrid, España
Formación. 01 oct de 2024 - 04 abr de 2025 / PHotoEspaña / Madrid, España
