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Callum Innes, Fred Sandback, Gunter Umberg

The exhibition places the work of American sculptor Fred Sandback alongside the paintings of German artist Gunter Umberg and Scottish painter Callum Innes.
The shear density of Umberg’s black paintings produces a visceral sensation of infinite space, yet the body of the pigment is very apparent as a physical phenomenon. One experiences the paintings as both a vertigo inducing ‘void’ and an impenetrably solid form. Void space made manifest – “dark matter”.
Sandback’s sculpture too induces a vertiginous recalibration in the viewer as they approach his poetic disembodied drawings. Freed from the wall Sandback slices the space with his modest yarn constructions. What we (dis)regard as empty space Sandback cuts, shapes and bends inducing the subtlest recalibrations in our mind about mass, speed and contained energy. Umberg and Sandback start at polar end of the material equation and end up very close by each other. Either end of the big bang theory....
Innes is a painter of flux. That nexus moment where light, mass and colour are experienced in a kind of suspended animation. This moment of particle disintegration or integration is expressed in the beautiful shellac painting whilst the gentle attenuated pulse of his line in the Agitated Verticals mirrors the vibrato in Sandback’s sculptures. For a moment, one imagines they might merge and unify these contrasting dimensions. It’s almost as if the Sandback line has disembodied itself from the body of Innes’s paint.

Event listed by Fox Jensen Gallery

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