The Face Of The Shape

Press Release

Without the innovative approaches to medium that a handful of up-and-coming artists have displayed, La Scatola Gallery could not have so fully realised its first-year ambitions.

La Scatola Gallery is pleased to present a group exhibition with the best multinational emerging artists working in London, Rebecca Ackroyd, Stéphane Blumer, Balint Bolygo, Ronin Cho, Blue Curry, Daniel Eatock, Rowena Harris, Hirofumi Isoya, Hannah Catherine Jones, Jukhee Kwon, Fabio Lattanzi Antinori, Russell Maurice, Steven Morgana, Alicja Pytlewska, Tal Regev, Lisa Selby, Richard Stone, Sarah Tew, Dominic Wilcox, Kentaro Yamada, Gyeong Yoon An.

At a time when ‘mixed media’ has become a blanket with which to cover and obscure the formerly well-defined and hard-fought realms of sculpture, painting and installation, any working definition of medium becomes both abstruse and all-inclusive. Rather than abide complacently within the abyss of namelessness, ‘THE FACE OF THE SHAPE’ will showcase a new era of sculpture, one that does, in fact, mix media to explore form, but also embraces each dimension, of space and of concept, more fully, in contour, craft and narrative, than its recent predecessors. To highlight the success both of the gallery and of the pioneering practices of a select group of artists, La Scatola is pleased to present ‘THE FACE OF THE SHAPE’.(...)
Although each artist’ s young ouevre is individually intriguing, it is the ambition of this group show to accentuate the new course that they are taking sculpture in. Whilst unable and unwilling to label the astounding differences between each featured artists’ aspirations, this show presents a common vision of expression through sculpture. Please join us as the gallery and the artists welcome the new directions shaping the future of form.

An exhibition curated by Valentina Fois
Texts by Chris Piegza