The German artist Paul Schwer (b.1951) has his first solo show in London in the gallery at Pi Artworks, where even the floor is painted white to create a full three dimensional canvas for art installations.
Schwer has created installations in a number of German cities, not without controversy. His artwork “Home” which hung over the Schützenbrücke in Donaueschingen was set on fire by a 78-year-old local master craftsman. Thankfully, the fire was put out quickly with minimal damage, but it aroused debate between critics and defenders – was it an artwork or a “pile of boards”?
“The Shape of Things to Come” sets eight of Schwer’s curved twisted and colourful plexiglas sculptures in a background setting that explores the relationship between colour, space, light and movement.
Schwer paints flat plexiglass sheets with coloured paint then spins and twists them into curving, complex swirling sculptures At Pi Artworks they are placed in a setting taken from a photograph of a pergola in Istanbul with the walls and floors covered in a spider’s web of silver lines connecting at the back to a cluster of fluorescent tubes, latex and polyester dropping down from the ceiling and linking back to the fluroscent tubes of the main gallery
[…] today comes in so many forms, whether full gallery installations or using modern materials such as plexiglass that is a joy to see an exhibition that celebrates the importance of painting as a medium and […]