PRESS RELEASE CLIVE BARKER
Recent Works
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Whitford
Fine Art is pleased to announce an exhibition of recent works by
BRITISH POP ART sculptor Clive Barker (b.1940), with a
preview in presence of the Artist. The exhibition shows Barker's recent
works, in which he has revisited in a refreshing and playful way some of
his favourite themes including foodstuffs, practical everyday objects,
children's toys, animated film characters and mythology. Moving on from
his favoured cakes, breads and cheeses, Barker presents us with seductive
plates of crustaceans, figs and pears as well as a masculine 'Ham on
the Bone'. Mythological-historical subjects include 'King Arthur's
Sword' (right), planted in a heavy bronze anvil. The animated
television series character Homer Simpson (below) is frozen in his
stereotypical gluttonous grin, and particularly draws attention to
Barker's love of contrast between the lively nature of the subject and the
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counterpart cast in bronze. This contrast is also brilliantly employed in
'Three Light Bulbs', where an
ordinary translucent functional object such as a light bulb, is suddenly
transformed into an object of desire in a solid opaque material. With 'Toy Train', a
children's favourite becomes a grown-up must-have. | ||
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Barker's
love affair with highly polished metals started in 1964 with his iconic
'Two Palettes for Jim Dine'.
For over forty years he has worked in chrome plated bronze, polished
aluminium and bronze. As a protégé of the legendary art dealer Robert
Fraser, and Erica Brausen of the Hanover Gallery, Barker was at the heart
of the British Pop Art Movement in 1960's swinging Sculptures
are for sale with prices ranging from £6,000 –
£45,000 Catalogue
Raisonné available at
£50. | |
EXHIBITION
DATES: Wednesday, 25 October –
PREVIEW:
Please contact Yvonna
Elphick at the gallery should you require any photos, transparencies or further
information.
Galley
opening hours:
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