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Early One Morning
06 July - 08 August 2002
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Early One Morning celebrates the work of an exciting new generation of British sculptors who are re-engaging with the formal and conceptual business of making things.
Their work demonstrates a sensuous enjoyment of materials, which they activate in dynamic and unexpected configurations. Largely abstract in composition, their work reclaims beauty and pleasure, sampling from the formal strategies of Modernism at the same time as design, fashion, music and advertising. Their works can be spatial, tactile and riotously colourful.
Working in a variety of styles and formal registers, these artists also reflect aspects of contemporary culture ranging from the romantic idealism of New Age imagery to the impact of music and its power to transform social environments. They explore notions of the organic and the natural, juxtaposed with the glorious plasticity of synthetic materials.
An interest in industrial materials and techniques and in the unexpected poetry of popular culture finds historical echoes: in the work of Anthony Caro and the 'New Generation' sculptors of the 1960s; and in the work of 'minimalist' and 'pop' sculptors such as Donald Judd, Eva Hesse and Claes Oldenburg.
This will be the first major exhibition to focus on a substantial body of work by each artist, all of whom graduated in the mid-1990s. Timed to coincide with the display of works by 'New Generation' artists such as Philip King and Tim Scott at Tate Britain, Early One Morning identifies a new generation.
The exhibition is supported by The Henry Moore Foundation and the exhibition Circle of Friends, including Shane Akeroyd.
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