Artists

Richard Deacon

Press release

Galerie Thomas Schulte is pleased to present About Us – an exhibition comprising two works by Richard Deacon in the Corner Space. The show brings together two distinct media that are fundamental for the artist: featuring an almost life-size stainless steel sculpture and a large, intricate black-and-white wall drawing. The works showcase Deacon’s mastery of material and medium, while offering a highly focused glimpse into two decades of his analytical form language and construction of aesthetic systems.

Through an interplay of surfaces, as well as orientational and directional shifts, there is a sense that things somehow repeat and yet always transform. Both the sculpture and drawing presented here are pared down in color; their lines and patterns are in conversation, contrasting and picking up on each other’s nuances and ambiguities.

In the wall drawing in black permanent marker, a jagged, stony mass seems to alternatingly protrude in some places and recede in others – mutating as though still coming to form. The hatching technique Deacon uses is also playfully executed to produce actual shifts in the process: it follows a set of rules generated by the artist, leaving space for different interpretations and outcomes with each installation of the drawing. The single polygonal form is composed of several smaller, irregular though familiar shapes – its lines of construction visible, like seams.