Torso, 2014
concrete and cotton, 140 x 50 x 14 cm
image courtesy of the artist, and Laura Bartlett Gallery, London

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Torso (2014) is a new work by Danish artist MARIE LUND which is part of her new solo exhibition entitled Dip currently on view at Laura Bartlett Gallery in London. This present work consists of a concrete sculpture shaped into a rectangular form onto which a piece of garment has been cast in and then removed leaving its trace, space or fragment, it has been reduced to. The effect is forceful, even monumental, but also ambiguous like if the artist has frozen the transition from real object to art object, from figuration to abstraction.

Inspired by the physicality of the human body and material concerns, this work as well as the whole exhibition aims to question the potential and limits of sculpture as object through a particular attention to surfaces, shapes, materials and processes.

→ Dip is on view at Laura Bartlett Gallery in London until January 18, 2015. Please note also that MARIE LUND will have a solo exhibition at Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe opening January 29th, 2015.

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