When Forms Come Alive

From the exhibition When Forms Come Alive currently at Hayward Gallery, London ...

Michel Blazy's Bouquet Final:

Choi Jeong Hwa from his Blooming Matrix series:

Teresa Solar Abboud's Tunnel Boring Machine:

Tara Donovan's Untitled (Mylar):

Matthew Ronay's Brontes, Steropes, And Arges:

EJ Hill's A Subsequent Offering:

Franz West's Kain Naht Abel and Phyllida Barlow's Untitled: Modernsculpture:

Lynda Benglis's Power Power:

Eleven Columns

Phyllida Barlow from her posthumous exhibition Eleven Columns currently at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Toronto:

Upturnedhouse

Phyllida Barlow's Untitled: Upturnedhouse, 2 currently at Tate Modern, London:

Dock

Phyllida Barlow's site specific work Dock was still being installed when I visited London in March.  I had a previous post about its installation in progress.  It's good to see its completed state when I visited Tate Britain again yesterday.  The "collapsing" monuments are still tremendously powerful:

Monuments, on the verge of collapse

I was at Tate Britain last month for Richard Deacon's solo and the exhibition Ruin Lust when I caught sight of Phyllida Barlow's site specific work Dock being installed in the grand spaces of the Duveen Galleries.  Using inexpensive everyday materials, Barlow's large-scale installations embrace mess, absurdity and precariousness while contrasting sharply with the monumental spaces in which they are placed.  It's a pity I have already left London when Barlow's show opened.  These pictures taken while Dock was still being installed, appearing as if it were on the verge of collapse, are no less interesting than the finished work.