Destroyed Shop Window . 2016
Destroyed Shop Window (2016) [is] a cast bronze work modelled after a bombed-out storefront. In much the same way that the Junk works lend a sense of permanence to the discarded, this large sculpture memorializes a transient moment in a building’s history, capturing it in a state of disuse while it awaits demolition or reconstruction. The sculpture highlights the lattice skeleton of the building, and, in Coventry’s conjuring of art history, evokes Modernism’s leitmotif: the grid. In contrast to historical notions of the grid, however, Coventry imposes a narrative on it, forcing the grid to be read in a specific context.
Pace London
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