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  • Richard Deacon and Bill Woodrow

  • Until Sep 20 2008
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  • Bloomberg Space, 50 Finsbury Square, London, EC2A 1HD
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  • By Tony Pearson

    Posted: Mon Sep 8 2008

  • One enters the show, entitled ‘On the Rocks’, to see four groups of little glass woolly mammoths marching across coffee tables. Can you even imagine anything worse? Also on the glass tables, which are below knee-height, are slabs of black glass that could represent mountain ranges. Pass through the foyer to the mezzanine to find a series of witches’ bottles: beautifully moulded glass forms stopped with sealing wax and little frosted glass hands, the index finger pointing upward. I suspect that installed practically anywhere else these glass sculptures might look nice, but it’s hard to even see them against all the glass and metal of the interior.

    I wondered if maybe the woolly mammoths are Big Business, lumbering towards extinction or if the smallness of the pachyderms in relation to the hugeness of the space was some kind of visual joke. I don’t know about you, but it seems to me there’s something about glass sculpting which seems to preclude humour. If they are gently mocking Office Foyer Art then that’s great, but it’s not enough. What an opportunity they had to make something violent, obscene or gaudy, if satire was their intent. I don’t think the artists have made anything that either collaborates or rebels against the surroundings. So, for me it has the feeling of a waste of art-time. Well perhaps ‘waste’ is too strong. ‘Paste’?
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