Rebecca Warren

The catalogue displays pieces from throughout Rebecca Warren's career, and features a selection of her best known works including the iconic Helmut Crumb (1998), work from The Agony and the Ecstasy (2000) and Dark Passage (2004), alongside new work. Her oeuvre combines rich art historical and contemporary references. The artist challenges sculptural conventions while also engaging with the history of figurative sculpture and her position within this predominantly male tradition. Alongside such art historical figures as Edgar Degas and Auguste Rodin, Warren's work also refers to contemporary artists such as Swiss duo Fischli/Weiss and sculptor Charles Ray. Here shape-shifting sculptures in clay and bronze range from amorphous to more recognisable forms, which are sometimes sexually explicit, embracing both the formal and the grotesque. Her vitrines play with ideas of display and value, imparting a sense of the museological to an array of otherwise unassuming objects and materials.