Frieze Sculpture

On Hold #9 is the first outdoor sculpture within Peter Buggenhout’s On Hold series, a group of works combining large inflatable, organic shapes intertwined with rigid constructive materials that both support and restrict them in the midst of their expansion. Formally, the sculpture indicates a state of incompletion (on hold) and instability, wherein things seem to simultaneously move to the left and to the right, upward and downward, erecting and falling, overflowing and consolidating. On Hold #9 is an uncontainable accumulation of brutal, yet brightly coloured materials and objects stripped from their original context and forced/squeezed into a complex composition that pushes the viewer towards confusion and disorientation through a sense of blurred recognition. It embodies the uncontrollable - the failure of intent and the steering and paralyzing forces of the structures that surround us in everyday life.

Frieze Sculpture 2019 will open to the public on Wednesday 3 July and remain on view until Sunday 6 October 2019 to coincide with the close of Frieze London and Frieze Masters.