Darren Almond is one of the most acclaimed creators of the generation known as Young British Artists, which revolutionized the international artistic landscape in the ‘90s. Unlike his generational peers, his work avoids extravagance and provocation to develop a complex discourse of great emotional power. Almond has worked in cinema, photography, sculpture and drawing to establish an elaborate, emotive and flexible practice that revolves around time and history, as well as the effects of industrialization. The exhibition gathers approximately sixty pieces of medium and large-scale photography, sculpture and audiovisual projections. These include the video All Things Pass (2012), filmed in Chand Baori, the largest step well in the world. The exhibition is complemented by a series of landscapes that range from post-romantic to apocalyptic, in which time seems to have stopped.
Darren Almond (United Kingdom, 1971) lives and works in London. Recently he has exhibited at FRAC Haute-Normandie and FRAC Auvergne (2011), Parasol Unit (2008), SITE Santa Fe (2007) and DA2 Domus Artium in Salamanca (2006). He has taken part in important group exhibitions at the Helmhaus Gallery in Zurich and Miami Art Museum. His work is featured in the Metropolitan Museum of Art collection in New York, the Tate Gallery and Saatchi Gallery in London, and the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin. He is represented by White Cube gallery in London.
The Spirit of Time
PHotoEspaña 2013
May 23 – August 4, 2013
Comunidad de Madrid / SalaAlcalá31
Madrid
Spain
