KEITH ARNATT – WORKS 1967 – 1996
2013-01-14To highlight Arnatt’s conceptual approach, this survey combines texts, sculptural installation and photographically realised works as well as photographs. Early pieces from the 1960s in the form of artist’s prints are set alongside text pieces and a floor-based sculpture created in accordance with Arnatt’s instruction. The work ‘KEITH ARNATT IS AN ARTIST’ questions the role of the artist as a whole. Arnatt was also interested in expanding the meaning and function of an artwork in terms of its relationship to the discrete acts of bringing a work into being.
Groups of photographs such as ‘Walking the Dog’ and ‘The Forest’ from the 1970’s and 80’s reveal Arnatt’s analytic method of working and emphasise the point at which he adopted the camera as his primary tool for producing art rather than documenting it. Series from this period use an observational style influenced by Arnatt’s awareness of the typological preoccupations of artists and photographers as diverse as Bernd and Hilla Becher and Robert Adams.
Opposite – from the series: The Forest, 1986
Exhibition runs through till January 27th, 2013
Maureen Paley
21 Herald Street
London
E2 6JT
