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Nigel
Hall
Forms in Light and Shade: Recent Sculpture and
Drawings
31 March – 14 May 2005
My work has always been about place. I am fascinated by
the way geometry can be discerned in landscape – Nigel Hall
Nigel Hall is one of Britain’s most distinguished sculptors. His
works, principally made of polished wood or steel, are concerned with
three dimensional space, mass and line. His abstract and geometric sculptures
give as much prominence to voids and shadows as to the solidity of material
and each work changes with light and viewpoint reflecting the landscapes
that inspired them.
The sculptures in this exhibition show Hall’s characteristic use
of geometry - cones, circles, arcs and ellipses overlap and intercept
one another sometimes projecting into space and sometimes forming complimentary
recesses and cavities.
21 recent wood and steel sculptures will be on display alongside 11 new
drawings. Nigel Hall’s drawings are not preparatory to his sculptures
but each informs the other - both exploiting similar shapes and motifs.
The drawings in this exhibition include a set using strong colour contrasting
with dark textural charcoal.
Nigel Hall was born in 1943 in Bristol and studied at the West of England
college of Art, Bristol and The Royal College of Art, London. His first
one-man exhibition was at Galerie Givaudan, Paris in 1967 and since then
he has exhibited extensively worldwide. He is well represented in numerous
public collections in USA, Asia, Australia and Europe including the Tate
Gallery, London, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and Tokyo Metropolitan
Museum of Art. He has also undertaken many private and public large-scale
site-specific commissions. In 2004 he had a major exhibition of sculptures
and drawings at the Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany.
Nigel Hall has been represented by Annely Juda Fine Art since 1977. This
is the ninth one-man exhibition of Hall’s work at the gallery.
A fully illustrated 36 page catalogue is available on request.
Gallery opening times: Monday – Friday 10 am – 6 pm
Saturday 11 am – 5 pm
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