Any visitor to
the exhibition by contenders Paul Noble, Spartacus Chetwynd, Luke Fowler and Elizabeth Price will get a powerful dose of what the avant garde is up to in 2012.
Not exact matches
Won
by the terrific Helen Marten, who split the winnings with her fellow
contenders, the Hepworth sculpture prize
exhibition (ends 19 February) ranges from Phyllida Barlow's rough - and - tumble slanted stage, with its cavernous undercroft, to David Medalla's delicate foam fountains, from Steven Claydon's mobile phone masts disguised as trees and rafts of fabricated tribal artifacts, to Marten's complex syntax games with objects and images.
Major
exhibitions by artists such as David Batchelor, creating multi-coloured sculptures from items bought in Scottish «pound shops», and the Scottish Turner Prize
contender Nathan Coley opened yesterday.
Then, during the last week or so of October, an
exhibition of works
by the four
contenders is held at the Tate Britain (or Tate Liverpool).