In his sculptures Northern Irish artist Keef Winter explores the aesthetic potential of stock building materials through works inspired by the extreme cases of order and chaos in the city, assembled in the style of the handyman or bricoleur.
Between the extraction of rubble from rogue office squats to the replication of glimmering corporate high-rise, Winter presents a symbiotic relationship between State and Rebel, action and inertia, glory and tragedy, where one cannot exist without the other.
Winter shows how his abstraction of formal architectures and the presentation of constructed debris can afford you to witness the breakdown of superstructures into their basic modules. His palette consists of shattered glass, collapsing cardboard, crumbling concrete and tarpaulin glory holes contrasting with mirrored prisms, sterile vitrines and metal wireframes.
Keef Winter lives and works between London and Belfast. He co-founded Space Delawab in 2008 and recently co-founded Allotrope Press in 2011. Recent exhibitions have been in Bahrain, Belfast and New York – upcoming solo shows are in The Joinery, Dublin 20th – 30th September, and in Chiyoda 3331, Tokyo 27th October – 11th November.
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Image Details
Belfast Penthouse 2009 Welded Steel Wireframe Sculpture 400 x 80 x 80 cm Dubai Window 2011 Ink on Envelope (framed in black wood) 55 x 42cm Lighten Up 2011 Suspended Ceiling Light Fitting in 3 layered frame (pine and mahogany) 70 x 70 x 13cm