Martin Erik Andersen: "on a plate for you"

22 Nov-7 Dec 2014

Overview

Featuring a sequence of works throughout the raw beauty of the Regency Town House, "on a plate for you" (2014) is rich with suggestion and paradox. Danish writer Magnus Thorø Clausen elegantly described Andersen’s sculptures as being in 'balance between being emphatically physically present and, at the same time, on their way toward erasing themselves, right up to the limit where they are almost disappearing from view; or, in any event, where they are vanishing from whatever thought can hold onto with its notions and conceptions.' And it is in this very difficulty in identifying where the artist is trying to lead us that we find its treasure, as secondary issues of narrative texture, spatial relationships between form and mass, even our own body awareness in relation to the work and its environment, are superseded by the primary objective of eliciting a sense of mystery, possibility and wonder.