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Some Dimensions of my Lunch: Part 1

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19 May - 17 June 2016 London
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Roelof Louw, Rope Piece, 1967 Installation view at Stockwell Depot 2: Sculpture, 1969, London, UK . Copyright Ray Sacks
Roelof Louw, Rope Piece, 1967 Installation view at Stockwell Depot 2: Sculpture, 1969, London, UK . Copyright Ray Sacks

Richard Saltoun Gallery's first exhibition in its four-part series examining the history of Conceptual art in Britain between the 1960s and 1970s begins with a solo show devoted to the artist Roelof LOUW. 

 

Roelof Louw is considered to be one of the most radical conceptual sculptors working in England in the '60s and '70s. His pyramid of 8,000 oranges, Soul City (Pyramid of Oranges), first shown in 1967, continues to cause a sensation wherever it is shown (it was recently named in the press as one of the "10 most perplexing works of the twentieth century", a list which also included Marcel Duchamp's Urinal).

 

The exhibition at Richard Saltoun Gallery brings together two of Louw's most important contributions to the development of Conceptual art in Britain: When Attitudes Become Form: Park Lane, which was exhibited at the Kunsthalle, Bern; and Rope Piece, which will be installed for the first time since it was exhibited at the ICA, London in 1969.  

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Works
  • Roelof LOUW Rope Piece, 1969 Rope Variable dimensions
    Roelof LOUW
    Rope Piece, 1969
    Rope
    Variable dimensions
  • Roelof LOUW, Soul City (Pyramid of Oranges), October 1967
    Roelof LOUW, Soul City (Pyramid of Oranges), October 1967
  • Roelof LOUW Park Lane, London, 1968 Set of 6 black and white photographs mounted on board. Printed 2013 80 x 55.5 cm (each) Edition of 2 plus 1 AP
    Roelof LOUW
    Park Lane, London, 1968
    Set of 6 black and white photographs mounted on board. Printed 2013
    80 x 55.5 cm (each)
    Edition of 2 plus 1 AP
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  • Roelof Louw

    Roelof Louw

    Some Dimensions of my Lunch. Part 1: Roelof Louw Joy Sleeman, 2016
    Softback 92 pages
    Publisher: Richard Saltoun Gallery
    Dimensions: 280 x 210 mm
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Press release

Richard Saltoun Gallery's first exhibition in its four-part series examining the history of Conceptual art in Britain between the 1960s and 1970s begins with a solo show devoted to the artist Roelof LOUW. 

 

Roelof Louw is considered to be one of the most radical conceptual sculptors working in England in the '60s and '70s. His pyramid of 8,000 oranges, Soul City (Pyramid of Oranges), first shown in 1967, continues to cause a sensation wherever it is shown (it was recently named in the press as one of the "10 most perplexing works of the twentieth century", a list which also included Marcel Duchamp's Urinal).

 

The exhibition at Richard Saltoun Gallery brings together two of Louw's most important contributions to the development of Conceptual art in Britain: When Attitudes Become Form: Park Lane, which was exhibited at the Kunsthalle, Bern; and Rope Piece, which will be installed for the first time since it was exhibited at the ICA, London in 1969.  

 

Born 1936 in South Africa, Louw came to London to study sculpture at St Martins in 1961. He was one of only a handful of British-based Artists to exhibit in the key European exhibitions that defined Conceptual Art: Op Losse Schroeven, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam and When Attitudes Become Form, Kunsthalle Bern, Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld and ICA London (all 1969). Later he was included in Lucy Lippard's celebrated Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972, the first anthology to document conceptual art made between 1966 and 1972. Lippard herself installed Louw's work Holland Park in her celebrated 'numbers' shows, 557,087 at Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, 1969 and at 955,000 Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, 1970.

 

Louw went on to represent Britain at Between Man and Matter, the famous 10th Tokyo Biennale in 1970, where he exhibited Rolled Lead Work (1970). He later spent time teaching and working in the USA and Canada where he exhibited in several of the Land Art exhibitions of the 70s before settling again in Cape Town, where he lives and works today.

 

Some Dimensions of My Lunch: Conceptual Art in Britain (1956 – 1979) at Richard Saltoun Gallery will feature important work by many of the famous protagonists of the period including John HILLIARD, Bob LAW, Terry ATKINSON (Art & Language), Keith ARNATT, John BLAKE, Barry FLANAGAN & John LATHAM, Marie YATES and Tony MORGAN.  The series has been co-curated by Joy Sleeman and Richard Saltoun.

 

Other exhibitions in the series include: 

 

Part 1: Roelof LOUW

19 May – 17 June

 

Part 2: Marie YATES (+ John LATHAM)

24 June – 22 July, 2016

 

Part 3: Focus on Tony MORGAN / John BLAKE

28 July – 26 August

 

Part 4: Focus on Ed HERRING / Roger PALMER

1 September – 30 September

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