Event overview
Organised by the Department of Art, sculptor Karin Ruggaber comes to talk at Goldsmiths.
Karin Ruggaber makes sculpture, as well as working with photography and publications. Recent works include relief sculptures made from concrete, plaster, fabric and wood. The pieces are based on inventing, reworking and extending of a growing vocabulary of how form is generated and developed and explore ideas of ornamentation, figuration and the organisation of space. Principles of ordering and layering are set against the roughness and imprecision of material and surface. On discussing her recent solo exhibition at Greengrassi, London: “I worked from an image of a Jacquemart clock (Carillon du Mont des Arts) that is on a façade in Brussels. I am fascinated by the clock’s structure. Its strange and fictional figuration portrays the hours as statues of different historic citizens of Brussels in various poses – combining symbols, large numerals and an ornamental sun as the dial... The clock’s attributes became a kind of template when making the reliefs for my show, but none of this is directly visible in the work. I don’t provide this background information but I don’t withhold it when asked. There are many external references that come into the making of the work. These range from images of cooking and food preparation to architecture – for example, Roma villas or the buildings designed by Rudolf Steiner. This background material is abstracted into an invented materiality and form, which becomes very artificial and removed from direct representation.” Karin’s work has been exhibited widely forthcoming and recent solo exhibitions include Peer, London, 2013; Greengrassi, London 2012; Swiss Church, London 2011; Art Now, Tate Britain, 2006; and the group exhibitions Camulodunum, First Site, Colchester, 2011-12 and British Art Show 7 - In the Days of the Comet, Hayward Touring, 2010-11.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 6 Feb 2013 | 5:30pm - 7:00pm |
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