For the exhibition, which first opens at Yorkshire Sculpture Park before touring to other venues around the UK, Gander has selected works from 30 different artists featured in the Collection,
pairing figurative sculptures with other artworks containing the colour blue, which to Gander represents the abstract ideas often found in modern and contemporary art.
Not exact matches
This initiates a compelling dialogue with the installation in the gallery's second space, in which further aluminium painting and
sculpture pairings are interspersed with a group of
figurative photographs of the sort of life - sized rubber dolls made for shop windows or medical experiments.
ALBERTO SAVINIO
Pairing the virtuosically strange
figurative painting of Savinio — the pianist, critic and younger brother of the better known Giorgio de Chirico — with
sculptures by Louise Bourgeois.
A decade ago, the Los Angeles - based artist Wendell Gladstone was creating ensembles that
paired a freestanding
sculpture with a wall - hung
figurative painting, connecting the two parts with string.
Flanking them are four works: a juicy
pair of
figurative paintings by David Hockney and Francis Bacon, a spindly gray
sculpture by Bruce Nauman and a man's suit, made of thick gray felt, by Joseph Beuys.