CORBAN WALKER AT RHA, DUBLIN
This exhibition entitled ‘Please Adjust’ features two works by Walker from the Irish Pavilion at the 2011 Venice Art Biennale re-imagined for the Atrium Space at the RHA.
The vinyl drawing, on the window of the RHA Atrium, involves Walker's response to his experience of the built environment and also plays with mathematical rules and principles, both common themes in his work. It is a visual game of sorts whereby the artist begins with a black vinyl square of 60mm and projects this square, successively reducing it by half its own dimension until it becomes almost invisible, hence the title Transparent Wall. Please Adjust, the largest work, comprises 176 interlocking stainless steel cube frames. As the title suggests the configuration which is subject to alteration at each installation questions the notion of sculpture as a constant stable form. The title also references the enormous economic crisis that has affected nearly every country since 2008, Ireland in particular, and how we as individuals may have to adjust expectations and positions. Just as each unit in this sculpture depends on the other for stability, individuals are all subject to the consequences of one action against another and exterior forces beyond our control. Corban Walker (b. 1967, Dublin, Ireland) is an artist known for his investigations of perceptions of scale and architectural constructs.
This exhibition runs until 29th April 2012 and will then tour to Lismore Castle Arts, Co Waterford from June to August 2012.
W: www.rhagallery.ie/html/exhibitions/walker_corban_12.html
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