Lisson Gallery 'In Conversation': Angela de la Cruz

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Image: Angela de la Cruz, Transfer, installation view, Lisson Gallery, 2011

Lisson Gallery is proud to present a programme of occasional free lunchtime talks, offering a unique opportunity to hear Lisson Gallery artists, other
cultural figures and gallery staff discuss art and related topics.

Each talk gives the opportunity to discover first-hand the thoughts, processes and insights behind the artists' work. Each lecture is free but booking is
essential as there are a limited number of places available.

The tenth in the series will be a conversation between Angela de la Cruz, Jenni Lomax and Greg Hilty, Lisson's Curatorial Director about works in Angela’s
new solo show, ‘Transfer’ at Lisson Gallery.

Fiercely emotive, de la Cruz’s work examines the language of painting and sculpture, challenging the established norms and testing the boundaries of
both mediums. It is both unapologetically raw and darkly humorous, possessing a physicality that is as much influenced by the work of comics such as
Jacques Tati, Charlie Chaplin and Harold Lloyd as it is by the visceral nature of Goya’s painting. Through violent interventions she anthropomorphises
her work, manipulating and deconstructing her canvases and materials so that they appear broken, crumpled and collapsed. Twisted and deflated, her
works lie as crushed or crumpled bodies on the gallery floor and wall.

The show at Lisson, her first since 2004, draws direct inspiration from the artist’s own experience. Many of the works mimic de la Cruz’s own
physical proportions, blurring the distinction between body and body of works, the artist and the production of art. Often torqued and warped, they function
as humorous meditations upon the human body’s limitations and failures.

A number of works explore de la Cruz’s interest in the elasticity and potentiality of aluminium. Aluminum surfaces project outward from walls and floors,
forcing the viewer to directly confront the experience of viewing. These works are dominant and shameless, boldly intruding upon their immediate space.
Yet, stripped of context, they also appear vulnerable and naked, awkwardly exposed against the white walls of the gallery.

Angela de la Cruz is a recent recipient of a Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Visual Artists and was also nominated for the 2010 Turner Prize and the
2011 South Bank Sky Arts Awards for Visual Art.

Angela de la Cruz ‘In Conversation’ with
Jenni Lomax and Greg Hilty

Friday 15th April
12.30 – 13.30
52-54 Bell Street, London NW1 5DA

Free admission. Booking is essential.
RSVP to rsvp@lissongallery.com