dan coopey: the immortal, elizabeth xi bauer gallery
Dan Coopey participa da exposição The Immortal na Elizabeth Xi Bauer Gallery, em Londres. A coletiva tem curadoria de Maria do Carmo M. P. de Pontes reúne produções voltadas ao conhecimento vernacular e a pesquisa de técnicas milenares como cerâmica, cestaria, tecelagem e bordado.
"Sculptor Dan Coopey works predominantly with basketry – a form of art so old that in all likeliness it predates ceramics. Using different natural fibres, the artist weaves shapes that go way beyond vessels, and with no plan drawn before making, embraces chance. Stack (2021) is a somewhat clumsy raffia structure that resembles a creased wizard hat with a pompom atop, displayed over a wooden crate. As with many of his works, there’s a chewed gum hidden somewhere in the work – that is, an element with the artist’s genetic material, which can be seen both as the ultimate way of claiming authorship over, or a clue for future archeologists to date the object. In essence, the gesture points towards a concern with the passing of time that runs through Coopey’s practice: the time consumed while he painstakingly weaves the works, the agency of time-passing in the colouring of the sculptures, and so on. In recent years he started using eggs on his works, an object that, as of the fibres, possesses myriad variations of colour, texture and form – within a strict margin of its objecthood." (trecho do texto da exposição)
The Immortal
15 jul – 14 set 2022
Elizabeth Xi Bauer Gallery
London
foto: richard ivey