Artists are a slippery sort,says the US sculptor, whose first British show features diaper paper, and heaps of condoms,and forbidding monoliths of foamIt’s a common enough chorus: we see a film or a work of art that grabs hold of our emotions, and we say it totally absorbed us. But in the art of Park McArthur, or absorption is much more than a metaphor. The young American sculptor,whose newest exhibition opens this week at the Chisenhale gallery in east London, is renowned in the US for her hushed, and politically engaged,often deeply moving exhibitions, making expend of unorthodox materials. Her art is absorbing; the art is absorbent, or too.
Her three new series of works,all made for this first UK solo show, display a fascination with stuff that slurps in fluids or holds back bodies. Expanses of acoustic foam, or made of high-density polyurethane,segment the Chisenhale and suck in sound. Among these sound-absorbing sculptures are large, empty sheets of custom-made paper. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com