Better is Something You Build

Curated by Jacqui McIntosh - Karin Brunnermeier, Graham Hudson, Gereon Krebber, Eamon O'Kane and Ulrich Vogl.

07 February 2008 - 01 March 2008

Kevin Kavanagh is pleased to present, Better is Something You Build, a group show curated by Jacqui McIntosh, featuring work by Karin Brunnermeier, Graham Hudson, Gereon Krebber, Eamon O'Kane and Ulrich Vogl.

Over the course of the last century, sculpture has been transformed from a medium bound by the pedestal, to one which has grown - through the influence of Dada, Duchamp's Readymades, Minimalism and more - to encompass an almost limitless proliferation of possibilities including installation, film and photography. As the critic Rosalind Krauss foresaw in the late 1970's, sculpture has become a category that is “almost infinitely malleable.”

Better is Something You Build, a group show featuring the work of five, young international artists working in sculpture and installation, has as its focus the artists' engagement with materials and the building process itself. The title of the exhibition could also be seen as a statement designed to provoke and a playful dig at the artistic spheres of the two dimensional. Times have changed since Donald Judd's assertion that “actual space is intrinsically more powerful and specific than paint on a flat surface.” Forty years on from Judd's writings, there are different things to distract us. The Internet, TV on demand, social networking sites, computer games have all contributed to a shift away from the real to the virtual and cerebral. Better remains elusively elsewhere rather than in the here and now. Sculpture in all its forms, still has the power to bring us back to the physical. It has the potential of bringing our awareness to our movement through space and time and of becoming a lived experience.

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