I Can't Follow You If You Don't Move
Andrew Maughan - Graeme Durant
The Royal Standard, Liverpool
I Can’t Follow You If You Don’t Move is a touring project by Andrew Maughan and Graeme Durant.
The tour starts at The Royal Standard in Liverpool on the 12th May and will evolve throughout the year with new works in different locations.
There are some obvious parallels between Durant's sculptural practice and Maughan's paintings; The seemingly instantaneous (but in reality, highly laboured) physical qualities, the way in which their work appears to embody fluctuating, convulsive or mutating states, the fine balance between figuration and disfiguring abstraction, their abundant concerns with materiality, indeterminacy, and the essential inadequacy of symbolization. But what is most interesting about this pairing is not simply the similarities, but the dialogue in which moments of both cohesion and dissonance - or slippage - take place.
Here are two artists speaking in two languages (or dialects, sculpturally and painterly) to evoke an open-ended conversation which is full of irreverence, anxiety, and poignancy.
Iris Aspinall Priest
Preview: Thursday 12th May 2011 6pm-8pm
13th May - 9th June 2011
The Royal Standard
Unit 3, Vauxhall Business Centre
131 Vauxhall Road, Liverpool L3 6BN
