An exhibition at and four other sites in Portsmouth.
This exhibition invites five artists to make temporary sculptures in unison with particular buildings. Whether we find them propped in windows, leaning in corners, concealing entrances or suspended from beams, the works playfully rub up against their immediate physical environment for support.
While the exhibiting artists each have distinct approaches, certain dialogues may be enjoyed between their works, such as an inventive preoccupation with short-lived or everyday materials. There is a tendency to create works whose method of realisation is explicitly self-evident and much of the work has been made in-situ. the artists also share an infectious enthusiasm for provisional arrangements and minimal means. In this way they have inherited a slapstick language of sculpture that doesn’t need a plinth or a frame. Finally, the exhibition finds that artists and viewers alike can identify with that child-like spirit of experimentation in simply leaning one thing against another.
One Thing Against Another is supported by the Henry Moore Foundation.
Off-Site Locations (venue info):
Victoria Park Aviary, Victoria Park, Anglesea Road, Portsmouth, PO1 3HJ
Open dawn till dusk, step-free access. Buses - Edinburgh Road, Rail - Portsmouth & Southsea
The Norrish Central Library & Third Floor Arts Centre, Guildhall Square, Portsmouth, PO1 2DX
Opening times: Monday 10am - 7pm, Tuesday - Thursday 9am - 7pm, Friday & Saturday 9am - 5pm, Sunday - Closed. Stairs and lifts to all floors, induction loop. Buses - Edinburgh Road, Rail - Portsmouth & Southsea, Taxi Rank.
The Butterfly House, Portsmouth Natural History Museum, Cumberland House, Eastern Parade, Southsea, PO4 9RF. Open daily 10am - 5pm, free admission, young people must be accompanied by an adult. Steps to entrance, induction loop, assistance and guide dogs welcome. Buses - 6 and 1c.
Please note: due to unforeseen circumstances and the special nature of the foyer in the Kings Theatre has been unable to install the proposed work in this location.
