New exhibition: George Rickey
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Axel Vervoordt Gallery is proud to present its first solo exhibition of American kinetic sculptor George Rickey (South Bend, Indiana, 1907 - Saint Paul, Minnesota, 2002), in collaboration with the George Rickey Estate and George Rickey Foundation. The exhibition, which will take place in the Terrace Gallery as well as in the open air of Kanaal, will show a selection of his sculptures, which he referred to as “useless machines”. Often intended to be placed in public spaces, Rickey always created an intriguing field of tension in his sculptures, in which geometric, constructivist metal parts, sometimes weighed up to hundreds of kilos, but were set in motion by light air currents. The manually grinded components of the works are chosen by the artist and always remain the same, but the movement driven by the will of nature is unpredictable and always different. The sculptures invite to a moment of rest and stillness, as they reveal their true nature only after some time and pause.
“I did not want merely to set a static art in motion, nor did I want to describe the dynamic world around me with a series of moving images. I wanted the whole range of movements themselves performing in a world of their own.” — George Rickey
To discover more about the artist, visit www.axel-vervoordt.com/gallery/exhibitions/george-rickey
