Liz Larner: below above

Over the past thirty years Californian artist Liz Larner has, together with artists such as Phyllida Barlow, Trisha Donnelly, Nicole Eisenman and Sarah Lucas, played with our idea of sculpture. Larner’s sculpture revolves around presence and absence – communicating bodies, that is. This is enunciated through the complex, delicate web of traditional and unorthodox perspectives she conjures and her in-depth understanding of forms and materials, their qualities and their heritage. An encounter with Larner’s work is always fruitful and transformational; it is not just an encounter with art history, but equally with beauty, repulsion and eros, with the cosmic, the extra-terrestrial and with humour.