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Art
Michael Samuels

When

16 May – 20 June

Mondays–Fridays (11am–6pm)

Saturdays (11am–4pm)

Where
Rokeby (37 Store Street, WC1, 020.7168.9942) Tube: Goodge Street, Tottenham Court Road
Price
FREE
Details
http://www.rokebygallery.com/
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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.

Helen Holtom