Dutch artist Frank Ammerlaan has created the first site-specific installation at this large Copeland Road space. He’s treated 50 sheets of crumpled corrugated metal to an industrial process called electroplating, in which things like screws and coins are dipped in chemical baths to protect them. Applied on a larger scale, the method produces scintillating results.
At first, the sculptures look like polished pieces of spacecraft wreckage; then, as you walk around them, their rainbow-hued surfaces start to morph and glimmer, and they become something else altogether. This is a restrainedly confident body of work by an artist able to bring a kind of alchemy to the most heavy-duty processes and materials.