Event overview
George Henry Longley's works straddle the boundaries between sculpture, poster, performance and design. In a recent Serpentine piece he was “trying to use the fashion industry to talk about the art world": the performance links to his main theme — the meeting of art and everyday life, the sublime and the mundane. He doesn’t want to make cold and remote objects but to make a better connection with viewers by working with the stuff of daily life.
He combines marble with make-up, clubber-friendly canisters of nitrous oxide and hair-growth products, for wall pieces he calls posters; and makes plywood daybeds, featuring beauty products, fruit and plaster casts of body parts, which he sees as being “somewhere between a piece of furniture, a plinth, a mood board and an analytical couch”.
“I want to create work that has the power to change your life at one extreme,” he says. “I want to make work about this moment, now, and making a marker for now. I want to undermine things and to be exuberant about other things. I think that’s all we’re trying to do as artists.” Ben Luke, Evening Standard
George Henry Longley has made solo shows at Laure Genillard gallery and Shrimpy's restaurant (both London 2013), Galerie Chez Valentin (Paris 2012) and Generator (Dundee 2009), and has recently featured in group shows at David Zwirner gallery, Cell, V22, Laura Bartlett gallery and David Roberts Foundation (all London). He lives and works in Margate.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 19 Mar 2014 | 6:15pm - 8:00pm |
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