Nothing is quite what it seems….illusionary, reflective and transparent shapes, mirrors, along with kinetic and geometric installations by over 20 artists from around the world including Anish Kapoor, Fred Sandback, Alicja Kwade and Felix Gonzalez Torres in ‘Shape Shifters’ with art from the last 50 years celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Brutalist architecture of the Hayward Gallery, opened in July 1968, with many of the installations interconnecting with the board-marked concrete architecture. A plastic covered handrail, used so much in Government buildings of the 1960′s, has come alive and is twisting and curving up the walls of the gallery while Anish Kapoor’s large mirrored blue ball reflects the other Brutalist buildings around it.
Hooray – Richard Wilson has brought back his mirrored-oil 20:50 to London, which used to be in the Saatchi and is now owned by David Walsh’s Museum in Tasmania. The Saatchi has not been the same without it.
[…] exhibition at the South Bank Centre and Peter Gronquist’s exhibition of the same name ‘Shape Shifter’ at Unit London which has now moved from London to Los Angeles. Infinity mirrors, distorted […]