A new group show, Sculptors in Print, opens at Marlborough Fine Art, London, on 6 April. In this unique presentation, the gallery celebrates the lesser known print works of four internationally renowned sculptors: Louise Bourgeois, Anish Kapoor, Richard Serra and Kiki Smith.聽Sculpture and printmaking have always had an affinity, and as Nancy Campbell writes in her introduction to the exhibition, “it鈥檚 bewitching when a sculptor brings their sensibility for space to the constraints of a single plane, and unafraid of technical experiment, explore different means of making marks.”
Taking centre-stage is Kapoor鈥檚聽Shadows and Horizon Shadows聽series聽comprised of聽bands of light and dark out of which vibrate rich fields of colour; aquamarine, scarlet, magenta, cobalt blue. The colours recall the mountains of vivid powdered pigment in Kapoor鈥檚 sculpture. Meanwhile,聽Bourgeois鈥檚 Sainte Sebastienne reworks the Christian martyr as a strong female figure typifying her punning treatment of gender in some of her sculptures. Bourgeois employed fabric in many of her sculptures, recalling her mothers work restoring tapestries, and she went on to introduce fabric into many of her graphic works, including the 36 part set The Fragile.
Elsewhere, Serra鈥檚 dense black ink etchings appear as if he has inked the faces of his sculptures and laid them onto the paper, and聽Smith鈥檚 interest in body politics and the natural world are expressed in her prints. Smith focuses on fleeting external appearances, and what she calls ‘skin as an envelope.’ An illustrated catalogue with text by Campbell, poet and editor of Printmaking Today, will聽accompany the exhibition.
Sculptors in Print, 6-30 April, Marlborough Fine Art,聽6聽Albemarle Street, London W1S 4BY.
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Credits
1.聽Anish Kapoor, Shadow III, Untitled 5, 2009, Coloured etching, edition of 39, 72.5 x 96.5 cm. Courtesy of Marlborough Fine Art.
