Blackened Plywood Shards Rupture Inside Yorkshire Sculpture Park’s Chapel in a Leonardo Drew’s New Set up — Colossal



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“Quantity 360” (2023) set up view at Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Photographs by Jonty Wilde, photographs courtesy of the artist, Goodman Gallery, and Galerie Lelong & Co., shared with permission

Within the cavernous 18th-century chapel at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, a brand new set up by artist Leonardo Drew (beforehand) explodes towards the ceiling in an enormous plume, scatting shards, mud, and tiny fragments of fabric across the house. Titled “Quantity 360,” the work is comprised of blackened and painted plywood that brings chaos and destruction to the in any other case stark, quiet sanctuary. The central surge of the set up reaches 5 meters tall to fill the whole thing of the chapel’s nave, whereas small paths are left clear to maneuver by way of the immersive rupture.

Born in Tallahassee however raised in Connecticut’s infamous Bridgeport Housing Project, Drew spent a lot of his childhood scrounging waste supplies and repurposing them into what had been his earliest artworks. This dedication to regenerate what’s been left to decay stays central to his follow at this time, and lots of of his items reuse supplies from earlier tasks. “Quantity 360,” for instance, makes use of the identical fractured plywood as that of “Quantity 341,” which the artist made in 2022 for Artwork Basel: Limitless in Switzerland.

To attain the tough, grainy texture of the person elements, Drew blended sand into acrylic paints, a selection that stems from a number of visits to porcelain studios in Jingdezhen, China, the place he witnessed the ceramic works exploding within the kiln, leaving earthen particles and shards of their wake. The artist additionally evokes the high-pressure nature of that course of, conveying a tense and violent vitality in an in any other case calm house.

“Quantity 360” is on view by way of October 29. Discover extra from Drew on his site and Instagram.

“Quantity 82S” (2021), on the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Artwork, Hartford, Connecticut. Picture courtesy of Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Artwork

“Quantity 341” (2022), Artwork Basel: Limitless, Switzerland. Picture © the artist and Jon Cancro, courtesy of Goodman Gallery, Galerie Lelong & Co., and Anthony Meier Tremendous Arts

The artist Leonardo Drew, with “Quantity 341” (2022), Artwork Basel: Limitless, Switzerland. Picture © the artist and Jon Cancro, courtesy of Goodman Gallery, Galerie Lelong & Co., and Anthony Meier Tremendous Arts

#set up
#Leonardo Drew
#wooden

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