'Shower'Richard Wentworth has played a leading role in New British Sculpture since theend of the 70s. His work, encircling the notion of objects and their use as part of our day-to-day experiences, has altered the traditional definition of sculpture. By transforming and manipulating industrial and/or found objects into works of art, Wentworth subverts their original function and extends our understanding of them by breaking the conventional system of classification. These sculptural arrangements and assisted ready-mades play with the juxtaposition of objects that have nothing to do together as well as with a range of material whose use does not belong to art. The viewer also encounters the unexpected through the artist's photographs that reveal a spontaneous and surprising urban reality.
This post dadaist approach was also present in "Thinking Aloud", the touring exhibition curated by Richard Wentworth, which gathered together disparate uncanny items as well as works of art. Through the criss-crossing of a sort of everyday art, "Thinking Aloud" suggested a 'Cabinet de curiosites' but was also a criticism of western mass-production society.
text taken from the The Lisson Gallery website
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