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Andrew Kerr

Andrew Kerr
Library Shelf Location 18.KERR
Publication Date 2011
Description In 1999, Inverleith House presented an exhibition open to all artists living and working in Scotland, called ‘Absolut Open’. The 29 artists chosen to exhibit were selected from submissions by over 350 artists, spanning several generations and encompassing every artistic medium and style. A few of the artists represented were already well-known at the time, but most were not. One of the strangest and most successful works in the exhibition was a cardboard sculpture made by Andrew Kerr, a young artist who had only just graduated from Glasgow School of Art. It took the form of a ‘cast.’ taken from another sculpture – the Garden’s ‘Slate Cone’ (Andy Goldsworthy, 1990; resting on the gallery floor like an upturned carapace it was positioned so that both could be viewed simultaneously by looking out of a window towards the hawthorn tree near which Goldsworthy’s sculpture was sited. whilst Kerr’s sculpture appeared temporary, improvised and possibly even slightly irreverent, both forms demonstrated an affinity with nature and culture respectively. Born in 1977, Kerr is one of the younger members of an internationally recognised generation of artists who have made exhibitions for Inverleith House in recent years, including Karla Black, Douglas Gordon, Jim Lambie, Victoria Morton, Tony Swain, Hayley and Sue Tompkins and Cathy Wilkes. The exhibition will feature new and recent work and is Kerr’s first major museum exhibition in Scotland, following a major solo exhibition in 2009 at the Kunstverein in Bremerhaven, Germany and other recent solo exhibitions in Cologne and Glasgow.
ISBN 9781906129835
Quantity 1
Pages 71
Author Kai Kahler
Format Paperback
Publisher Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
Related Artist Andrew Kerr
Category Painting
Language English

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