Sarah Lucas talks to Ben Luke about her influences—from writers to film-makers and, after all, different artists—and the cultural experiences which have formed her life and work.
Lucas, born in London in 1962, is among the most vital artists of her era, each within the UK, the place she was related to the Nineties motion referred to as the Younger British Artists, and internationally, the place she has been the topic of a number of vital latest institutional exhibitions.
Her apply primarily consists of sculpture, however it’s typically offered in distinctive installations in dialogue with images, within the type of prints or wallpaper. Her work is characterised by sardonic and ribald humour, knowledgeable by colloquial British language but in addition shot by means of with feminist principle and social commentary.
Shaped from a wealth of supplies, a lot of them on a regular basis discovered objects like newspapers, meals, furnishings, cigarettes and clothes, her sculptures nearly at all times evoke the physique, nevertheless crudely decreased or abstracted. And whereas a humdrum frankness and bawdiness are ever-present, Lucas’s sense of the unusual and the uncanny find her work inside the legacies of Dada, Surrealism and absurdist artwork in Europe and the US.
She discusses her modern strategy to exhibition-making, and the liberating collaborations with Franz West that influenced them. She discusses how Yoko Ono knowledgeable a few of her latest work. She displays on an anarchic collaboration with the Austrian collective Gelitin. Plus, she offers perception into her working practices and studio life.
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The free app presents entry to an unlimited vary of worldwide cultural organisations by means of a single obtain, with new guides being added recurrently. They embody Tate, whose 4 UK galleries embody Tate Liverpool, the place Sarah Lucas had a present in 2005, and Tate Britain, the place her survey is happening in autumn 2023. There are additionally guides to a number of different museums and galleries the place she has had vital exhibits, together with the Whitechapel Gallery in London and the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. Obtain the app and also you’ll uncover that the information to the Hammer has options on its assortment and momentary exhibitions, together with Sanford Biggers’s outstanding sculpture Oracle, which the artist discusses in depth throughout a number of audio options.
