In the Studio: Phyllida Barlow

Morris, Frances

ISBN 10 : 3907493036 ISBN 13 : 9783907493038

Editeur : Hauser & Wirth, 2025

Synopsis

A window into Phyllida Barlow's studio practice offering insights into her biography, key works and exhibitions Over six decades, British artist Phyllida Barlow (19442023) developed a transformative approach to sculpture, creating restless, invented forms that placed audiences in new relationships with the object, the gallery environment and the world beyond. Though she made art steadily throughout her life, it was only after Barlow retired from teaching that her work came into greater public prominence. Barlow employed a distinctive vocabulary of inexpensive materials such as plywood, cardboard, plaster, cement, fabric and paint. Drawing on memories of familiar objects from her surroundings, she worked in an anti-monumental tradition characterized by her physical experience of handling materials, which she transformed through processes of layering, accumulation and juxtaposition. Her large-scale sculptural objects are frequently arranged in complex installations in which mass and volume seem to be at odds with the space around them. In this guide to Barlows studio practice, curator Frances Morris explores the development of Barlows work and the making, unmaking and remaking, chance, mishaps and changes of mind through which the artist produced her pioneering works of art.

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For almost 60 years, Phyllida Barlow took inspiration from her surroundings to create imposing installations that can be at once menacing and playful. She created large-scale yet anti-monumental sculptures from inexpensive, low-grade materials such as cardboard, fabric, plywood, polystyrene, scrim, plaster and cement. These constructions were often painted in industrial or vibrant colours, the seams of their construction left at times visible, revealing the means of their making.

Frances Morris is an art historian, curator, and writer. She was director of Tate Modern, London, from 2016 until 2023. Morris often worked with and spoke to Phyllida Barlow, and in 2024 she completed two other projects related to the artist: the exhibition, ‘Phyllida Barlow: unscripted’ at Hauser & Wirth Somerset and the definitive monograph, Phyllida Barlow: Sculpture, 1963–2023.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Hauser & Wirth
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3907493036
• ISBN 13: 9783907493038
• Reliure: Carton flexible
• Nombre de pages: 152
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