Installation views
- 1 of 8
- 2 of 8
- 3 of 8
- 4 of 8
- 5 of 8
- 6 of 8
- 7 of 8
- 8 of 8
Images
- X (Fifth), 2014
casein paint on paper
cm 76 x 56, cm 86 x 66 framed1 of 15 - X (Fourth), 2014
casein paint on paper
cm 76 x 56, cm 86 x 66 framed2 of 15 - X (Third), 2014
casein paint on paper
cm 76 x 56, cm 86 x 66 framed3 of 15 - Stopper
, 2015Vitreous Enamelled Steel
cm 28 x 23 x 214 of 15 - X (Second), 2014
casein paint on paper
cm 38 x 28, cm 48 x 38 framed5 of 15 - Heavy Intruder, 2015
Vitreous Enamelled Steel
cm 125 x 70 x 1056 of 15 - X (Twenty-four), 2015
casein paint on paper
cm 154 x 112, cm 166 x 124 framed7 of 15 - We differ from eachother in speed, 2014
installation in three parts
each approx cm 240 x 1208 of 15 - We differ from eachother in speed, 2014
hammered aluminium
installation in three parts
each approx cm 240 x 1209 of 15 - Untitled, 2014
casein paint on paper
cm 76 x 56, cm 86 x 66 framed10 of 15 - Untitled, 2014
casein and colour pencil on paper
cm 38 x 28, cm 48 x 38 framed11 of 15 - Untitled (Climbing 1), 2015
Powder-Coated Steel, Stainless Steel bolts and spacers, h cm 270 x 100 x 70
12 of 15 - Untitled (Climbing 4), 2015
Powder-Coated Steel, Stainless Steel bolts and spacers, h cm 206 x 120 x 80
13 of 15 - Untitled (Climbing 5), 2015
Powder-Coated Steel, Stainless Steel bolts and spacers
h cm 230 x 140 x 6014 of 15 - Untitled (Climbing 3), 2015
Powder-Coated Steel, Stainless Steel bolts and spacers
h cm 290 x 30 x 5015 of 15
Press release
DAVID MURPHY
Deep, Deeper
28 May - 31 July 2015
After the successful exhibition in our gallery in Zuoz in 2013, we are now delighted to announce David Murphy’s first solo show in Italy. David Murphy (*1983) is an emerging British sculptor who approaches his work with an instinctive sensitivity towards the innate textures and qualities of the materials at hand. In doing so, he creates visions of abstract, yet familiar, forms.
Murphy’s sculptures are like drawings in space: the play between line and volume, space and lightness, is central to his work. These qualities inform his exploration of patterns that define and re-present the patterns integral to organic forms. Furthermore, the works engage with the microcosm and macrocosm of structures found in nature, acting like a lens that zooms in and out of woven fabric, foliage, or cells, revealing hidden or invisible structures, while remaining essentially abstract.
Last year David Murphy spent a period of time as Artist in Residence at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UK. The three groups of sculptures presented here bear the traces of that period of immersion in the rural landscape. Tangles of root-like forms are raised high on tables, others seemingly grow and climb the walls. These works appear to occupy a threshold between organic and inorganic matter, between growth and ossification.
The manipulation of materials, intimate and tactile, speaks of the interaction between human intention and the natural world. Central to the exhibition are three large freestanding sculptures made from individual sheets of thin aluminum, which have each been subjected to repeated hammer blows over many hours. Murphy is both in control of and directed by his medium and tools; with each strike the metal subtly stretches and warps. It is through this process of hand-working that the material is gradually redefined.
The forms that inhabit Murphy’s works often develop out of such accumulations, discrete units or actions that exploit and embrace unpredictability within repetitive processes. The particular character of the material determines whether this growth manifests itself as an object or as marks on paper, but in both cases the traces of a slow movement results in ambiguous forms that resist easy identification. Here, distinctions between image and object are endlessly contested; sculptures as black line drawings, others that lean on the wall for support, and works on paper that blur the distinction between two and three dimensions by creating optical topographies.
A specially commissioned text by Paddy Butler accompanies the exhibition.
David Murphy was born in Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK, in 1983, and lives and works in London. Recent and forthcoming exhibitions include: Groundwork, The New Art Centre Roche Court, UK (2015); Keep it Real, Bayt-Al-Sinnari Centre for Culture, Cairo, Egypt (2015); Certain Impacts, PEER, London (2014); Zeichnung ohne Zeichnung, Christian Ehrentraut Galerie, Berlin (2013); New Basics, Galleria Monica de Cardenas, Zuoz (2013); Young English Sculptors, Fundaziun Not Vital, Switzerland (2012); Anschlüssel, Frühsorge Contemporary Drawings, Berlin (2012); Aggregate!, Event Gallery, London (2011). He was artist in residence at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park (2014); Atelier Concorde, Lisbon (2012); Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, Scotland (2011), and M4 Gastatelier, Amsterdam (2010). He will be artist in residence in Murano, Italy in June 2015.
DAVID MURPHY
Deep, Deeper
28 maggio - 31 luglio 2015
A due anni dalla mostra presso la nostra sede di Zuoz, siamo felici di annunciare la prima personale di David Murphy in Italia.
Alla base del lavoro di David Murphy c’è un’istintiva sensibilità e una naturale attrazione verso le textures e le qualità dei materiali più comuni. Questo suo modo di lavorare lo porta a creare forme indefinibili e misteriose, ma sorprendentemente familiari e riconoscibili.
Le opere del giovane scultore inglese sono come disegni nello spazio; il continuo gioco tra linee e volumi, tra forma e leggerezza è un elemento essenziale della sua ricerca ed è la base della sua indagine sulle strutture elementari delle forme organiche. I suoi lavori agiscono come una lente d’ingrandimento che indaga il microcosmo e il macrocosmo di strutture presenti in natura come tessuti, foglie, cellule, rivelando le loro parti nascoste o invisibili, pur rimanendo fondamentalmente astratti.
Lo scorso anno David Murphy ha trascorso un periodo in residenza presso lo Yorkshire Sculpture Park (UK) e tra i lavori presentati si scorgono le tracce di quel periodo di immersione in un paesaggio rurale. Forme simili a radici intricate sono sollevate e appoggiate su dei tavoli, altre sembrano arrampicarsi sui muri, dando la sensazione di occupare uno spazio tra materia organica e inorganica, tra crescita e cristallizzazione. Come nei suoi primi lavori, la lavorazione dei materiali, intima e tattile, ci parla dell’interazione tra la volontà umana e il mondo naturale
Punto focale della mostra sono tre grandi sculture realizzate ognuna con un unico grande foglio di alluminio, modellato pazientemente con ripetuti colpi di martello.
I lavori di David Murphy spesso devono il loro sviluppo ad accumulazioni di gesti o di segni che sfruttano l’imprevedibilità dei processi ripetitivi. La peculiarità del materiale determina poi se questo sviluppo si manifesterà in un oggetto o in segni sulla carta; comunque sia, in entrambi i casi, le tracce di un movimento lento si traducono in forme archetipiche ma ambigue, difficilmente identificabili a un primo sguardo. Qui le distinzioni tra immagine e oggetto sono labili: a sculture che sembrano linee nere disegnate si affiancano disegni su carta che offuscano le distinzioni fra le due e le tre dimensioni.
La mostra è accompagnata da un testo scritto per l'occasione da Paddy Butler.
David Murphy è nato a Newcastle Upon Tyne nel 1983 e vive e lavora a Londra. Fra le sue esposizioni personali figurano: Certain Impacts, PEER, London (2014) e New Basics, Galleria Monica De Cardenas, Zuoz (2013); fra le collettive recenti e future ricordiamo: Groundwork, The New Art Centre Roche Court, UK (2015); Keep it Real, Bayt Al Sinnari Centre for Culture, Cairo, Egypt (2015); Zeichnung ohne Zeichnung, Christian Ehrentraut, Berlin (2013); Young English Sculptors, Fundaziun Not Vital, Switzerland (2012); Anschlüsse, Frühsorge Contemporary Drawings, Berlin (2012); Aggregate!, Event Gallery, London (2011). Ha vinto alcune residenze tra cui: Yorkshire Sculpture Park (2014); Atelier Concorde, Lisbon (2012); Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, Scotland (2011), e M4 Gastatelier, Amsterdam (2010). Nel giugno del 2015 passerà un mese in una residenza d’artista a Murano.