JOE BRADLEY
2017-01-16At Peder Lund, Bradley will display a closed-form minimalist sculpture. The work calls to mind the artist’s ‘modular paintings’, exhibited at the Whitney Biennial in 2008 – layers of acrylic on cheap pre-stretched Fredrix canvases, mounted to the wall so that they resemble experiments in Minimalism. The single-panelled monochrome paintings were stacked together to depict people, animals, places and objects, and communicate an overall sense of theatre and movement, and almost possess a personality. The sculpture on view shares the modular paintings’ spatial presence. Although both series may seem to be operating in a light slap-dash mode, they in fact reflect a thoughtful attention to the history of art, and particularly the study of colour. They demonstrate the visual range achievable through presenting colours alone or juxtaposing them in infinite combinations. Like a monolith, the sculpture brings this painterly chromatic quality to ground level, facing the viewer directly while powerfully repressing the surrounding space.
Exhibition runs through to February 11th, 2017
Peder Lund
Tjuvholmen allé 27
N-0252 Oslo
Norway
