The British sculptor salvages materials from scrapyards and junk shops to create large-scale, ruminative installations which explore the processes by which objects and the histories they contain become obsolete. The artist’s first every survey exhibition, at the Hayward Gallery (22 February–7 May), brings together a new series of works alongside recreations of some of his best-known pieces such as The Deliverance and the Patience (2001), which was first commissioned for the British Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale in 2001, and Studio Apparatus for Kunsthalle Münster (2014) which is made from gridded metal and suspended objects. Find out more on the Hayward Gallery’s website – and you can read Gabriel Coxhead’s interview with the artist here.
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Installation view of The Book of Spells at Matt’s Gallery, London (2022), Mike Nelson. Photo: Mike Nelson; courtesy the artist and 303 Gallery, New York; Galleria Franco Noero, Turin; Matt’s Gallery, London; and neugerriemschneider, Berlin
Installation view of Studio Apparatus for Camden Arts Centre (1998), Mike Nelson. Photo: Mike Nelson; courtesy the artist and 303 Gallery, New York; Galleria Franco Noero, Turin; Matt’s Gallery, London; and neugerriemschneider, Berlin
MAGAZIN: Büyük Valide Han (2003), Mike Nelson. Photo: Mike Nelson; courtesy the artist and 303 Gallery, New York; Galleria Franco Noero, Turin; Matt’s Gallery, London; and neugerriemschneider, Berlin
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