Patrons dining club: Phyllida Barlow RA 'cul-de-sac'
Tuesday 19 February 2019 8 - 10pm
The Senate Rooms, Burlington Gardens, Royal Academy of Arts
£75 per person, payment on RSVP.
Phyllida Barlow RA
Join us for Patrons dining club to celebrate the opening of Phyllida Barlow RA 'cul-de-sac'.
Patrons have the first opportunity to see our new exhibition and can come together after the tour to continue the conversation and discuss the 'anti monumental' structures over dinner in the Royal Academy's Senate Room.
This spring, Barlow is creating entirely new, site-specific work in our day-lit Gabrielle Jungels-Winkler Galleries, which she is conceiving as her own interpretation of a residential cul-de-sac. There will be rooms where her works invade the entire floor space, creating forests of structures, as well less populated areas, inviting speculation and altering your perception. As always with Barlow, colour will be a key theme, with graffiti blues, corals and candy pinks daubed and pressed into raw materials such as cardboard and plaster, which she often chooses over traditional sculpture materials. A key highlight will be an artwork evoking the architectural form of the portal, a doorway with a thick cement shadow, which will serve as an ‘entrance’ to her creation.