I recently attended a talk by Phyllida Barlow hosted by the wonderful
Contemporary Art Society. She spoke of her current work on display at
Serpentine, her 'encounter' (rather than collaboration) with fellow artist Nairy Baghramian and of the new decisions and hard choices she's having to make late in her career post teaching.
Untitled: Columns 2010
It was such a great day, the photo above shows one of Phyllida's vast sculptural installations which look robust and imposing but upon closer inspection are actually enormously fragile. Layer upon layer is built up, there's a sense of movement and haste to it all of her pieces. They create a startling contrast to Nairy's work (below) which is so quiet, polished and paired back to be the smallest interruption to the surrounding space.
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