DAVID MANELY
’BRUTES’
1 SEPTEMBER – 24 SEPTEMBER, 2016
Brutes, 2016, Installation shot. Photography by Document Photography.
ID: On the floor of the gallery there is a wood and cardboard sculpture, about knee height. It is a rectangular box held up by several short wooden legs. The box contains layers of stacked cardboard with a panel of wood that runs vertically down the box, and a small wooden block placed on top of the sclutpure.
EXHIBITION STATEMENT
Brutes was a selection of works from the Ambivalent Structures series as well as more recent work that traced the aftermath of modernity through its attendant buildings and structures, inextricably linked to the violence of war.
Brutes, 2016, Installation shot. Photography by Document Photography.
ID: Three walls in the gallery contain three framed photographs. The photograph on the left wall shows building with a cylindrical brutalist structure. In the center is a black-and-white photograph of a solid concrete structure in the brutalist architectural style and on the right is a much smaller framed image of a tall building behind a row of trees. In the bottom corner of the right hand side of the image is a wooden sculpture, about knee height. It is a rectangular wood and cardboard box, held up by several short legs at the bottom. On the faces of the box there are many window-like sections.
Brutes, 2016, Installation shot. Photography by Document Photography.
ID: Four large framed photographs are hung on the wall to the right and center of the image. The photographs are images of concrete brutalist architectural structures, weathered and unused. The wall on the left-hand side contains a single framed photograph of a large concrete geometric brutalist structure with trees in the background. The structure is old and weathered. The back wall contains three images, all framed. The left photograph shows a corner of an interior space, in which a wall with a curved opening on the top right corner allows for a window in the ceiling to pass through. The center image is a shot of a single-storey building with triangular walls around the building. The building is placed on a bare tarmac space. The last image is a photograph of a building with a cylindrical brutalist structure.
Brutes, 2016, Installation shot. Photography by Document Photography.
ID: An outside view of the gallery with framed photographs and a screen monitor facing the outside. The work on the left wall is a large photograph of an ultramarine blue building on the corner of a street.
Brutes, 2016, Installation shot. Photography by Document Photography.
ID: Three large framed photographs are hung on the wall to the right and center of the image. The photographs are images of concrete brutalist architectural structures, weathered and unused. A much smaller framed photograph hangs on the left wall.