Portuguese, Berlin-based artist Leonor Antunes engages with traditions of modernist art, architecture and design through sculpture made and displayed with the specifics of a given place in mind.
Antunes’ vision for her exhibition at Fruitmarket turns around a cork floorpiece engraved with a pattern taken from the work of Marian Pepler, an architect and designer who is known for the modern rugs she produced in the 1930s. Such points of reference build on Antunes’ extensive engagement with Latin American mid-century modernists like Brazilian architect Lino Bo Bardi and sculptor Mira Schendel. The exhibition explores many of these trajectories as they become entangled together in her work, creating multiple conversations between past and present and across continents.
Antunes’ sculptural installations, which often draw on artisanal techniques and processes, undermine traditional distinctions between art, design and craft. Her layered, cumulative method allows audiences to think about sculpture in new ways. The exhibition is curated by Briony Fer and includes existing work as well as the new floor, and extends through all the spaces of Fruitmarket – the airy modernism of the Exhibition Galleries and the rough materiality of the Warehouse.
Supported by Longrow Capital.
