- Venue
- Pangolin. Kings Place
- Location
I admit that it can be intimidating to walk into some commercial galleries. Even though they often put on exhibitions and rotate collections which are for viewing and not just buying, it is not always easy to be in one without feeling you have to pretend that you may be a collector on their dress down day.
Pangolin at Kings Place have integrated themselves into an open, public space, and manages to be more approachable for viewing and browsing.
The current exhibition shows drawings and works on paper from artists who are usually known as sculptors, including Lynn Chadwick, Damien Hirst and Sarah Lucas.
Contemporary and 20th century pieces, studies and sketches examine in two dimensions ideas from artists who work in three. Artists, of course, are used to crossing dimensions, and leaving behind evidence of thought processes. Work and ideas in progress, finished pieces and working sketches; this exhibition treasures the more ephemeral processes in a sculptor’s practice.
It’s undeniable that by calling the exhibition Sculptor’s Drawings, rather than just Drawings, it makes you look at them differently, as if looking for clues about other intentions and implied layers and dimensions in the drawings.
It’s fascinating to see the eye-watering prices – £15,000 for a drawing by Antony Gormley that looks remarkable like one I have just done. I guess I’d be willing to sell mine for that price.
