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Indepth Arts News: "Material Intelligence" 2009-05-16 until 2009-07-12 Kettle's Yard Gallery, University of Cambridge Cambridge, , UK United Kingdom
Many of the artists use mass produced materials, and used or broken objects, from the cracked mirrors and black umbrella fabric used by Ian Kiaer in his new installation that draws together ideas about Kettle’s Yard and Wittgenstein’s notion of a ‘family of resemblences’.
Karla Black will make a dramatic incursion in the gallery spaces with what she calls her ‘thin sculpture’: a 6m long ‘curtain’ made with cellophane, sellotape, paint, body moisturising cream, toothpaste, cling film, soap, Cif cream, nail varnish and fabric dye powder.
Claire Barclay has always made strange, crafted objects and often includes them in the large, architectural installations she is well known for. For this exhibition she focuses attention on the specific objects themselves.
Matt Calderwood will present a new, site-specific sculpture alongside two video works, and in a room-sized installation in our double-height gallery, Tony Feher will seduce us with the beauty of blue plastic bags.
Their choice of materials, experimental investigations and interest in the ordinary and everyday links them to some of the key artistic movements of the 20th century, including Process art, Arte Povera, Minimalism & Postminimalism, Viennese Actionism and Constructivism.
Alongside these five new commissions, the exhibition includes the UK premiere of works by Shirley Tse.
The exhibition will be accompanied by an online catalogue including artists interviews and downloadable texts.
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"Material Intelligence" At Kettle's Yard in Cambridge, brings together eight contemporary artists who work with the stuff around them. Their work is characterized by a "democratic" selection of materials, both traditional and unconventional, handled with an openness and rigor that offer insight into contemporary artistic practice and the material culture we live in and with today. Works included are by Claire Barclay, Karla Black, Martin Boyce, Matt Calderwood, Tony Feher, Wade Guyton, Ian Kiaer, and Shirley Tse.
