Image:RADC @ Saatchi Gallery, Photo Hugo Glendinning
Wednesday 7 September, 7.30 – 9.00pm
To celebrate their first exhibition dedicated entirely to sculpture The Shape of Things to Come: New Sculpture, the Saatchi Gallery has invited The Place to realise a one-off special event of contemporary dance to be performed in the various spaces of the gallery by Richard
Alston Dance Company.
Richard Alston, one of the UK’s most acclaimed choreographers, will be creating dance especially for this event in response to the magnificent spaces of the Duke of York HQ building.
Sculpture inspires a physical response in the viewer, and so does dance. The Place and the Saatchi Gallery have teamed up to explore further the possibilities of interaction between the two.
The event is conceived as a loose promenade show, in which the audience is invited to discover dance episodes scattered throughout the exhibition. Figurative and abstract sculptural forms on both a monumental and miniature scale will create a dramatic backdrop against which the dancers will engage with the space in new ways.
The Shape of Things To Come: New Sculpture provides an unprecedented look at the work of 20 leading and emerging sculpture artists today, including David Altmejd, John Baldessari, David Batchelor, Peter Buggenhout, Berlinde De Bruyckere, Matthew Brannon, Bjorn Dahlem, Folkert de Jong, Roger Hiorns, Martin Honert, Thomas Houseago, Joanna Malinowska, Kris Martin, Matthew Monahan, Dirk Skreber, Anselm Reyle, Sterling Ruby, David Thorpe, Oscar Tuarzon and Rebecca Warren.
Saatchi Gallery Duke of York’s Square; King’s Road; London; SW3 4RY
