Au Naturel,
1994, Mattress, melons, oranges, cucumber, bucket © the artist, courtesy Murderme and Sadie Coles HQ, London
Big Fat Anarchic Spider' (1993), Tights, newspaper. Private collection of Jacques and Rosana Seguin, Switzerland © the artist, courtesy Sadie Coles HQ, London
Suffolk Bunny, Spam, Unknown Soldier, Au Naturel © Sarah Lucas/Courtesy Sadie Coles HQ
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Sarah Lucas: Ordinary Things
Institute exhibition
Untill 21st October 2012
Ordinary Things takes Sarah Lucas' (b. 1962) recent series
of sculptures 'NUDS' (2009-) as a starting point, looking forward and
backward across an artistic practice that has engaged with the
possibilities of sculpture for over two decades.
Many exhibitions of Lucas' work have focused on her as a central player within British art in the 1990s. Ordinary Things
offers a counter position: this exhibition of thirty sculptures turns
to the sculptural rather that the sensational, positioning Lucas' work
within an art historical lineage that addresses the materials and
processes of sculpture. From 'Big Fat Anarchic Spider' (1993) to 'NUDS'
(2009-2010), to 'Unknown Soldier' (2003) and 'Jubilee' (2012), via
'Suffolk Bunny' (1997-2004), 'Au Naturel' (1994) and 'Penetralia'
(2008), Ordinary Things identifies Lucas' consistent
questioning of the definition of sculpture. Lucas works with the
'ordinary things' that form our surroundings and assumptions.
The Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
Dane Tree House, Perry Green, Much Hadham,
Hertfordshire SG10 6EE, Regno Unito
