MARK HANDFORTH – TRASH CAN CANDLES
2019-08-19Mark Handforth’s sculptures imbue the almost-invisible features of our lives – street lamps, road signs, fluorescent lights and fire hydrants – with formal properties that make them strange, larger than life and enigmatically off-kilter. They are meticulously crafted, but deliberately imperfect, often containing a wry humour and poetry in their references and arrangement in space.
Handforth’s objects collage elements together in alluring compositions; an early sculpture of a Vespa is covered in burning candles and becomes an altar; a street lamp is twisted into the shape of a five-pointed star, and a piece of drift wood is cast in concrete and juxtaposed with fluorescent lights. His works have both a sense of distortion and of the manipulation of the urban landscape – literally tied in knots – but also, often an archaic and poetic sensibility.
Opposite – Silver Forest, 2019
Exhibition runs through to September 13th, 2019
Modern Art
50-58 Vyner Street
E2 9DG
London
