#London-Based Artist Nathaniel Rackowe Represented By @LawrieShabibi #Dubai

Lawrie Shabibi is pleased to announce that Nathaniel Rackowe joins its growing roster of international artists.  Rackowe is a London based artist from the UK whose large-scale architectural structures and light sculptures are designed to recreate the experience of navigating the city around us. His works are abstracted impressions of today's metropolitan experience evoked through the vicissitudes of light as it fluctuates throughout the city. Influenced by Modernism, Rackowe uses the mass manufactured derivative products of that era - corrugated plastics, concrete, scaffolding, breeze blocks and strip lights - to recreate the collective experience and visual sensations of urban contemporary life.

Rackowe's use of light structures spaces by emulating the way it delineates buildings, city blocks and streets. In this way Rackowe departs from the aesthetics of the use of light by American minimalists such as Flavin and Judd.  By decoding these experiences his works capture the chromatic sensations of desolate streets at dawn, the atmosphere as daylight fades into night and the shadows created by obtrusive cranes, scaffolding and skeletal buildings.  The resulting sculptures - striking geometric shapes with dramatic shafts of light - combine vivid beauty with the grimness of industrialisation, perhaps offering a true representation of the disparities of contemporary life. Nathaniel Rackowe was born in 1975 and graduated from the Slade with a M.F.A in sculpture.  Selected solo shows include The Consequence of Light, Bodson Gallery, Brussels,(2014), Reflections on Space BISCHOFF/WEISS, London (2013), Spin, Edun Fall/Winter Collection Fashion Show, New York (2012), Luminous Territories, BISCHOFF/WEISS, London (2007), Galerie Almine Rech, Paris (2007),Shift, BISCHOFF/WEISS, London (2005). Group shows include Lumiere, Light Festival of Durham, UK(2013), Dynamo: A century of light and movement in art, 1913-2013, Grand Palais, Paris (2013), The Double Illums Bolighus, Copenhagen (2013), Lumiere, Galerie Jan Wentrup, Berlin (2008), All Tomorrows Pictures, ICA, London (2007), Artificial Light, MoCA Goldman Warehouse, Miami (2006) andMonologue/Dialogue UK-Thai art today, Bangkok University Gallery Bangkok (2006). Public Art Projects include DEN FRIE Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen (2013), Spin, Lima Peru (2010) RP3, Economist Plaza with the Contemporary Arts Society, London (2007) and LP4, Victoria Station, London (2006). His works are in notable public collections including CIFO (Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation), Miami, USA; Jumex Collection, Mexico; Museum of Modern Art, Lima, Peru; LVMH Collection, Paris, France; Museum of New Art, Tasmania, Australia; David Roberts Collection, London, UK; UK Government Art Collection, London, UK; Hauser & Wirth Collection, Zurich, Switzerland; and Ernst & Young Collection, London, UK.

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