Jonathan Baldock: Unearthed

15 April - 28 May 2023

kunstverein göttingen, Germany

'Unearthed' is Jonathan Baldock's first solo exhibition in Germany.

Exploring Baldock's 20-year oeuvre, the show brings together a range of textiles, ceramics and installations. Works are presented in new combinations, tracing ideas of bodily trauma, mortality and spirituality throughout Baldock's craft. T he exhibition takes place in the medieval setting of the Göttingen town hall; echoing the mythology and offsetting the humour of Baldock's sculptures. Often taking on a biographical form, Baldock’s work is saturated with humour and wit, as well as an uncanny, macabre quality that channels his longstanding interest in myth and folklore. He has an ongoing focus on the contrast between the material qualities of ceramic and fabric in his work. Concerned with removing the functional aspects of the materials he uses, Baldock instead works in a performative way through his sculptural assemblages, bringing the viewer, the object and the space they simultaneously occupy into question as a theatrical or ritualistic act.

Often taking on a biographical form, Baldock’s work is saturated with humour and wit, as well as an uncanny, macabre quality that channels his longstanding interest in myth and folklore. He has an ongoing focus on the contrast between the material qualities of ceramic and fabric in his work. Concerned with removing the functional aspects of the materials he uses, Baldock instead works in a performative way through his sculptural assemblages, bringing the viewer, the object and the space they simultaneously occupy into question as a theatrical or ritualistic act.

'Unearthed' is Jonathan Baldock's first solo exhibition in Germany.

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