Kolding
Helen Chadwick
Trapholt Museum of Modern Art
Æblehaven 23
June 1–August 1, 2005
Barbican Art Gallery
Barbican Centre
Silk Street
May 1–August 1, 2004
Manchester Art Gallery
Mosley Street
September 25–November 21, 2004
Liljevalchs Konsthall
Djurgårdsvägen 60
June 1–August 1, 2005
Curated by Mark Sladen
With Helen Chadwick’s death in 1996 at the age of forty-two, the art world lost yet another major young female artist. For Chadwick, pleasure, visual and otherwise, had parity with politics, and she is remembered as much for her vibrant, sassy feminism as her roving experimentation across sculpture, installation, and photography. This seventy-work retrospective places the artist’s last pieces alongside reprises of two major London solo shows, in 1986 and 1994, to trace her journey from an allegorical, decorative postmodernism to exuberantly scatalogical yet sensual sculpture.
Travels to the Manchester City Art Museum, Sept. 18–Nov. 21; Kunstmuseet Trapholt, Kolding, Denmark, Jan. 2005–Mar. 2005; Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, June 2005–Aug. 2005.