Richard Deacon – Walk On By, 2013.

Richard Deacons, Walk On By

16. november 2012 – 12. januar 2013

På udstillingen Walk On By, i Galleri Susanne Ottesen, kan man opleve Richard Dea-cons (f. 1949) virtuose tilgang til materialer igennem hans seneste undersøgelser af vo-lumen, overflade, forholdet mellem krop og rum, indendørs og udendørs og det organiske overfor det strukturelle.

Walk On By består af i alt syv skulpturer. To træarbejder buer og snor sig på væggen i forrummet og bagrummet. De to værker, Brassy #1 og Brassy #2, undersøger den dy-namiske tradition i Deacons arbejde med organiske og hybride buelinede former. I mellemrummet står værket, Siamese Metal #6,i rustfrit stål. Værket beskæftiger sig med konstruktion ud fra et sammenfald af former et sted imellem enhed/pluralitet. De tre værker i rustfrit stål fra serien Custom er kendetegnet af deres dansende og transparente overfladekontur. Værkerne er konstrueret af rør i rustfrit stål og titlen på serien refererer til en viderebearbejdning af standardiserede produkter.

Deacon om sine værker

“Looking at this body of work I’d have to confess to an interest in surfaces – bright, scuffed, polished, scumbled, textured, applied and so on. I’d like to think that the surfaces not only fit the works, but are the works. As they say, what you see is what you get. It’s ended up that way, but I didn’t really start with the surface and build backwards. However it is that relationship to volume that interests me at this moment – that the surface is a beginning point rather than an ending, a cause rather than an effect.”

“There are other, more formal concerns, seriality for instance in the Custom and wooden works, each of which is composed of similar, either made or bought, units differently organized and the pieces thus individuated. The Custom works are made from stainless steel tube and spinnings. The title Custom comes from an idea about modification to standard products – customizing.”

“The wood works are all made up by selection from a group of bent and twisted wooden forms –– each composed with the idea of creating a single line. Paul Klee’s ‘taking a line for a walk’ is a reasonable description.”

Siamese Metal #6 continues a series made by combining two forms together and making them share features at their interface. Siamese refers to this twinning process, as in a Siamese junction in pipework, and harks back to the now discredited term for conjoined twins, a naming that remembers a pair of conjoined Thai acrobats in the nineteenth century court of the king of Siam.”