- Venue
- Project Space 11
- Starts
- Wednesday, September 8, 2010
- Ends
- Saturday, September 25, 2010
- Address
- Unit 11 Plymouth City Market Cornwall Street Plymouth PL1 1PS
- Location
- South West England
Project Space 11 is pleased to present the first solo show of artist Dean Knight: Modern Sculpture. Much of Knightʼs work centres on notions of construction, exaggeration and authenticity. This is often manifested through the presentation of an open- ended scene, in which signs or symbols offer clues to an unresolved narrative. Modern Sculpture shows newly commissioned work for the context of Project Space 11, in which assumed and recurring formats within contemporary and modern art are examined. At first glance, these works function on an aesthetic level: being recognizable as modern, with their pleasingly subdued palette and slick architectural elements. The basic shapes and motifs present in these works represent an exaggerated level of simplification, and a nod to a rather old-fashioned form of minimalism. This is somewhat disrupted by the presence of gestural finger marks in works such as Sculptural Ball with Ashtray, for example, which along with the inclusion of cigarette-butts, suggest a trace of the artist or creator. This already somewhat clichéd notion is pushed into theatre and parody with the cartoon, considered, and sterile rendering of these usually imperfect remnants.
