Theresa Simon & Partners Ltd.

TSP was appointed in August 2010 to work on the Nadav Kander exhibition and accompanying book ‘Yangtze: The Long River’.Currently TSP is working on the PR for the Phillip King exhibition ‘A Survey Through 50 years’.

One of the most innovative and highly regarded sculptors working in Britain today, King first came to prominence in the early 1960s with works such as ‘Ghengis Khan’ (1963), which will be a prominent feature of the concurrent Modern British Sculpture show at the Royal Academy of Arts (22 January – 7 April 2011).

“A Survey” will feature plasters and bronzes from the 1960s and 1970s, as well as new work made for the gallery space and some more recent wall and floor pieces from the last five years.

King’s now trademark vivid juxtapositions of colour partly derive from his youth spent in the strong North African light: he was born in Tunis. In recent years, he has brought his vibrant palette to bear on a set of works that draw on the functionality of furniture and architecture, yet continue his discussion about art, and particularly sculpture, as being largely defined by its uselessness.

For the exhibition at Flowers, he is making a site-specific work that combines wall mounted and freestanding pieces. The result is a sculptural ‘environment’ that sits somewhere between a room set, or architecture and an installation.

King continues to push the definition of sculpture into new realms, inviting us to explore and interact with him.

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