The British Museum will be showcasing six contemporary sculptors in its Statuephilia exhibition, the Museum's first exhibition of contemporary sculpture in over a decade. Two of the artists featured, Antony Gormley and Marc Quinn, are sculptors whose work is, and has been, on display at the Cass Sculpture Foundation. The exhibition also includes works by other leading contemporary artists including Noble and Webster, Ron Mueck and Damien Hirst.
The show, guest curated by Waldemar Januszczak and James Fox, consists of a series of installations which aim to highlight the development and cultural import of sculpture throughout the ages. Each work will be showcased in its own gallery within the museum thus providing a new context for the piece. Juxtaposed with sculptural traditions from a variety of eras, each piece will facilitate a visual dialogue with the works around it whilst making a case for itself within the sculptural canon.
Statuephilia will run from October 4th 2008, to January 25th 2009 and admission is free. For information on editions by Antony Gormley and Marc Quinn available for sale through the Foundation, please email: info@sculpture.org.uk.
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