Damian Ortega
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Ikon Gallery
Damian Ortega
6 September - 14 October 2007
Venue: Ikon Eastside
http://www.ikon-gallery.co.uk
Box Office: 0121-248-0708
One of the most significant artists to have emerged from Mexico in recent years, Damien Ortega produces works that engage with matter, the condition of sculpture, geo-political and social concerns. Tending towards common, close at hand materials – the better for highlighting the micro against the macro, the local on a global stage – he transforms them through sculptural and conceptual processes that result in deeply poetic, characteristically humorous works.
His exhibition at Ikon Eastside will involve massive coils of thin copper sheeting. Interested in the physical properties of the material – its flexibility, ability to hold its form, rich colour and propensity to tarnish rapidly – as well as its associations – including a conductor of power and heat, he has proposed a series of three works which, when shown together, suggest an abstract representation of a cityscape. Shaping the raw material of Birmingham’s industrial past into its shining present, the work will itself submit to the process of decay during the run of the exhibition, showing the relentless, entropic process of time.
