The Humility of Plaster: Florian Roithmayr
4 September – 14 October 2018
Florian Roithmayr’s Humility of Plaster was a two-year research and exhibition project exploring the materiality of collections housing plaster moulds and casts across Europe, enabled through a new partnership between the Museum of Classical Archaeology, Kettle’s Yard, and Wysing Arts Centre where Roithmayr has a studio.
Moulding and casting are widely used techniques of modern and contemporary art making. Their use and application can be found beyond the disciplinary art canon, in areas not immediately associated with art practices, and in times before casting became an acceptable form of sculptural production in its own right.
Roithmayr has developed a new body of sculptures in response to this research, that was presented amongst the collection of plaster casts of classical works at the Museum of Classical Archaeology, 19 May to 3 November 2018. His research was presented in this exhibition in our research spaces.
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