Drunken Sailor (London 2021)
Lai, Phillip. 2021. Drunken Sailor (London 2021). In: "Drunken Sailor", Modern Art, London, United Kingdom, 8 July - 21 August 2021. [Show/Exhibition]
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Creators: | Lai, Phillip |
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Abstract or Description: | Solo exhibition comprising nine artworks EXHIBITION TEXT Phillip Lai’s exhibition for Modern Art consists of a group of new sculptures both wall-based and floor-based that cross-reference each other across the spaces of the gallery. Their colour palette is limited to mostly blue and silver, but made with a range of materials including poured concrete, pewter, polyurethane resin, aluminum, and tarpaulin. Much of the work explores a sense of retention and loss of physical material. In Blue Food, a blue cast-concrete form with defined depressions and hollows eventually becomes the clogged container for more concrete poured through it. Within these lengthy processes, positive and negative spaces are sometimes muddled, using the reversing logic of casting;nothing is quite what it first seems. Drunken Sailor, a work with cast barrel-like objects, also titles the show as a whole, denoting qualities of physical immersion and disorientation. Perhaps it is a kind of reverie, or something more oblique. Phillip Lai was born in 1969 in Kuala Lumpur, and he lives and works in London. His works have been shown in solo exhibitions in institutions including Camden Arts Centre, London (2014); Transmission Gallery, Glasgow (2009); and The Showroom, London (1997). His work has been shown in group exhibitions in such institutions as The Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield, uk (2018); John Hansard Gallery, Southampton University, Southampton (2015); Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham (2014); City Gallery Prague, Prague, Czech Republic (2012); Tate Modern, Turbine Hall, London (2010); Cubitt, London (2008); Overgaden Institute for Samtidskunst, Copenhagen, Denmark (2007); and Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, usa (2007); CCA, Glasgow, Scotland (2005); Hayward Gallery, London (1999); MoMA, New York, USA (1998); and ICA, London, (1995). In 2018 the artist was shortlisted for the Hepworth Prize for Sculpture. His work is held in the following collections: Arts Council Collection, London; Nomas Foundation, Rome, Italy; Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing, China; Tate, London. |
Official URL: | https://modernart.net/exhibitions/phillip-lai-4 |
Departments, Centres and Research Units: | Art |
Date range: | 8 July - 21 August 2021 |
Related URL: | https://modernart.net/exhibitions/phillip-lai-4/press-release |
Event Location: | Modern Art, London, United Kingdom |
Item ID: | 32245 |
Date Deposited: | 03 Oct 2022 08:43 |
Last Modified: | 19 Dec 2022 20:59 |
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