Sculpture – Delphian Gallery

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Sculpture involving Sound – Selected by Harrison Pearce

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Tim Hawkinson – Pentecost

I saw this piece in Hawkison’s retrospective at the Whitney in New York back in 2005. It was the first time I’d ever seen the artist’s work and was my first real introduction to a giant sound sculpture. I still think about it.

Haroon Mirza – HRM199: For a Partnership Society

Haroon’s solo show at Zabludowicz last year was a knockout. It was a vivid demonstration of the material reality on which our casually ephemeral idea about digital experience fallaciously rests.

Oliver Beer – Vessel Orchestra

Oli’s work at Ropac in London, where he opened the new space with a solo show, was a crisp combination of haunting warmth and analytic clarity. This was probably even better demonstrated by this recent work at The Met in New York where he got to work with some unbelievable stuff. Hopefully this will come to London in the future.

Ryoji Ikeda – Test Pattern

I saw this when Lisson Gallery took over The Store, 180 Strand, in London. It was a powerfully impressive flex of audio-visual installation. It’s a very intense work but I loved experiencing the high velocity synchronicity

Yuko Mohri – painfully

I saw this little piece at Mother’s Tankstation during Condo in London last year. Mohri makes exceptionally poised works with a delicate balance of elements that lifts mundane objects to a perplexing and poetic realm

Hannah Perry – Rage fluids

This work at Somerset House as part of her solo show Gush was a completely captivating experience.

Nathaniel Mellors – Progressive Rocks

This was the best thing I saw back in 2018 at the New Museum. I was thoroughly amused and watched the whole fairly lengthy thing without blinking.

Ima Abasi Okon – Infinite Slippage: nonRepugnant Insolvencies T!-a!-r!-r!-y!-i!-n!-g! as Hand Claps of M’s Hard’Loved’Flesh [I’M irreducibly-undone because] —Quantum Leanage-Complex-Dub (2019)

This installation at the Chisenhale was so compelling. I loved the combination of the slowed down audio with the air circulating through industrial air conditioners

Rebecca Horn – Concert For Anarchy

An all-time favourite. If you ever get to see it do it’s thing it’s hard to forget.

Jónsi – In Bloom

In this piece from Tanyar Bonakdar Gallery, PA loudspeakers are arranged into the form of a poisonous foxglove flower and mounted with chrome butt plugs from which emanates a sonic tapestry of processed field recordings of flora and human fauna. I love the way Jonsi shapes sound freely across sculpture, music and cinema.

For more top tens, see:

My favourite Contemporary Artists using Performance – selected by Rosie Gibbens

Artists working with Themes of Post-vandalism – selected by curator Stephen Burke

My favourite Australian Artists – selected by Jordy Kerwick.

Antony Gormley at the Royal Academy

From the British coastline to the rooftops of Manhattan, Antony Gormley’s sculptures are recognised across the world. With work from his 45-year career alongside major new installations created for their galleries, The RA present his most ambitious exhibition in more than ten years.

Following in the footsteps of Ai Weiwei and Anselm Kiefer, Antony Gormley will be the next artist to take over the Main Galleries with a series of works that test the scale and light of the RA’s architecture.

The exhibition will explore Gormley’s wide-ranging use of organic, industrial and elemental materials over the years, including iron, steel, hand-beaten lead, seawater and clay. They will also bring to light rarely-seen early works from the 1970s and 1980s, some of which led to Gormley using his own body as a tool to create work, as well as a selection of his pocket sketchbooks and drawings.

Throughout a series of experiential installations, some brand-new, some remade for the RA’s galleries, they will invite visitors to slow down and become aware of their own bodies. Highlights include Clearing VII, an immersive ‘drawing in space’ made from kilometres of coiled, flexible metal which visitors find their own path through, and Lost Horizon I, 24 life-size cast iron figures set at different orientations on the walls, floor and ceiling – challenging our perception of which way is up.

Perhaps best-known for his 200-tonne Angel of the North installation near Gateshead, and his project involving 24,000 members of the public for Trafalgar Square’s the Fourth Plinth, Antony Gormley is one of the UK’s most celebrated sculptors.

The exhibition is curated by Martin Caiger-Smith, with Sarah Lea, Curator at the Royal Academy of Arts.

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