Curatorial Archive Preverberation

CHARLES DANBY

CURATORIAL PROJECTS ARCHIVE / PREVERBERATION

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2008

PREVERBERATION / SOLO EXHIBITION - NATHANIEL RACKOWE

14th April – 4th July
Private View 24th April 6-8pm

Siobhan Davies Studios
85 St. George’s Road,
London
SE1 6ER

Monday-Friday 10am-8pm
Saturday 10am-5pm

www.siobhandavies.com/art

Using light, kinetic elements, and common industrial materials British artist Nathaniel Rackowe makes large-scale works that animate architectural spaces and transform viewers into active participants. His sculptural works are often made of low-tech ‘functional’ materials that explore the boundaries of the physical spaces that surround them. Building upon Minimalism’s heightened attention to the relationship between viewer, object, and space, Nathaniel’s works display a complex and shifting relationship to their environment, exposing otherwise unseen dimensions, visual and temporal, and giving them physical form. The works question the absoluteness of the built environment, testing its margins and suggesting inventive and alternate paths of movement.

Alongside a new sculptural work, Block Tower (2008) Nathaniel Rackowe will show previously unseen photographs that explore through registrations of scale the structural possibilities of his sculptures, and a video work that draws together previously separate footage from a number of installations that span his career.

Nathaniel Rackowe, Block Tower, 2008

Nathaniel Rackowe, Temporary Light Installation at Siobhan Davies Studios, 14 / 05 / 2008