Young Baggage, 2005 Painted and Chromed steel, 183 x 88 x 69 cm, 72 x 34 1/2 x 27 inches John Chamberlain New Works The famous American sculptor John Chamberlain (b. 1927, Rochester, Indiana) presents a first solo exhibition at Xavier Hufkens with new sculptures only. John Chamberlain began in 1957 to urge crushed and crumpled scraps of junked steel into volumes of subjective splendours whose brazen beauty called to the paintings of his forebear, Willem de Kooning. Chamberlain twisted and bent the cast steel parts of used cars into swollen concavities and convexities that simulated the casting of a more malleable medium such as clay... Initially, the colour of the painted parts was that found in their salvaged state, most often, the palette of Detroit automakers. Later on Chamberlain has had the steel painted, on both sides, mostly in simple positive and negative figures... John Chamberlain has never wanted his art to be restrained by a preset goal or the enactment of a specified task. While his procedures are clear, they are also excessive and impure. (Excerpts from Klaus Kertess, "Chamberlain of Beauty", New York, 2003). Exhibition: 21 April - 27 May 2006 Gallery hours: Tues-Sat 12 - 6 pm Xavier Hufkens Gallery Sint-Jorisstraat 6-8 Rue Saint-Georges B-1050 Brussels Telephone +32 2 639 67 30 Fax +32 2 639 67 38 Email info@xavierhufkens.com www.xavierhufkens.com |
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