Rokeby
5-9 Hatton Wall
EC1
020.7193.5034
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Michael Samuels, Goodbye to Dignity, Courtesy Rokeby Gallery
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- When
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16 May 2008 – 20 June 2008
Mondays–Fridays (11am–6pm)
Saturdays (11am–4pm)
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Tube: Farringdon
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Michael Samuels' exhibition at Bloomsbury's Rokeby precedes this year's Jerwood Contemporary Painters tour, for which the artist has been nominated. Taking an experimental approach to the idea of flat-pack furniture, Samuels constructs fantastical, furniture-based sculptures with no practical use whatsoever. Table legs are carefully balanced atop kitchen tables that have been reassembled according to primary-colour coding, conjuring hybrid monuments to an imaginary, post-Ikea utopia. Meanwhile, salvaged desk lamps spotlight humble items of domestic leisure, celebrating their form and colour.
