THE MODERN INSTITUTE | OSBORNE STREET

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• Martin Boyce’s exhibition title is an invitation, one which casts the galleries as a liminal interior, a place both eerie and incomplete. It also points to a movement from interior to exterior, one concurrent with a change from natural to manmade. Boyce produces a simultaneity of conditions, somewhere between home, stage and landscape. Each artwork has a double-life, nodding to elements in the environment and industrial design, to the real and fictional: a sculpture registers as a coat stand and an orrery; steel chain resembles the branches of a tree; glass lanterns are cherry blossom; a fireplace becomes a theatre. The main space is populated with sculptures, text, and panels softly coloured in muted hues of rose, lemon yellow and teal, and often rendered in perforated steel or thin glass, lending the room a sense of openness and lightness. The four corners of the main space are occupied by steel letters that spell out the words: Atomised Bones Stars and Dust. The phrase recalls the concise language of advertising but is underpinned
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  Martin Boyce - Hang Up the Day Put On the Night

  Until 31 Oct 2026

  
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• Andrew Kerr’s practice is rooted in drawing. His pencil drawings, exploring letterforms, text and shape, provide both pictorial ideas and a technique which move into painting. In Capture Builthis, there are pairs of paintings which share a common origin, following the approach of his drawings where the same word or set of forms are repeated and reshaped across different sheets. This intuitive method, one which relies on following an unfolding process rather than a strict logic, extends into Kerr’s investigations of sculpture and architecture too. Shapes chime between the dancing vessels, column-like emblems, and pleated spaces in the paintings and the interventions in the space. Set design formed a key part of the output of many artists in the 20th century, with the interplay between the fine arts and performing arts producing experimental results both on the canvas and stage. In the lead-up to the exhibition, Kerr chanced upon theatre commissions by André Derain (1880–1954), Balthus (1908–2001) and Alberto Giacometti (1901–1966), delighting in the teasing of perspective and confident artifice found in their designs. The notion of mise-en-scène as
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  Andrew Kerr - Capture Builthis

  Until 7 Nov 2026

  
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