Soft Monuments
Frestonian Gallery is delighted to present Soft Monuments, an exhibition bringing together the work of 8 artists who make work using an alchemy of ambiguous, organic forms drawn from the natural world. Here, traditional notions of monumentality are reimagined. Utilising a spectrum of approaches ranging from directly figurative to nebulous and abstract, the works exhibited celebrate a type of 鈥榮oftness鈥� that isn鈥檛 defined by a lack of rigidity, but instead by an attempt to monumentalise something fleeting or temporary; things with a lifespan such as the human body and plant-life. These artworks aim to capture forever this ephemerality, an inherent contradiction in their permanence as art objects.
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Frestonian Gallery is delighted to present Soft Monuments, an exhibition bringing together the work of 8 artists who make work using an alchemy of ambiguous, organic forms drawn from the natural world. Here, traditional notions of monumentality are reimagined. Utilising a spectrum of approaches ranging from directly figurative to nebulous and abstract, the works exhibited celebrate a type of 鈥榮oftness鈥� that isn鈥檛 defined by a lack of rigidity, but instead by an attempt to monumentalise something fleeting or temporary; things with a lifespan such as the human body and plant-life. These artworks aim to capture forever this ephemerality, an inherent contradiction in their permanence as art objects.
