At A Tangent

Date: August 2021
Exhibition/Show Type: Group
Media: Drawing, Installation, Mixed Media, Painting, Sculpture, Other

Exhibition Description

This was a group exhibition, curated by Ben Gooding, at The Cut, August/October, 2021.

Curated by Ben Gooding, At A Tangent featured the work of 10 contemporary artists.

The work presented in this exhibition is concerned with the liminal quality of line, the architectural curvature of space, the coalescence of form from intersecting planes, accreted points and poised vectors.

Ever present is a highly considered geometric operation that distils and defines the work, making explicit the beauty and elegance of underpinning mathematics.

It is in the draw of a brush, the cut of an edge, the tension of a thread, the pressure of a score that this exploration of tangential possibilities manifests itself.

From the exhibition catalogue:

There is something profound in the simplicity of a tangent.

The point of contact is fleeting, the arc of the line dynamic, the precision of the geometry elegant.

A Euclidian echo that is not only a mathematical tool of tremendous utility, but an aesthetic convention of great poetic richness.

It is a casting-off point for this exhibition which explores the enigmatic and pivotal nature of linear interactions through the rigorous and exacting practise of the eleven artists assembled.

The catalogue for this exhibition is here.

Material about several of the exhibiting artists can be found on the Saturation Point website