Daniel Silver

Today I visited the studio of my friend, artist Daniel Silver. He is preparing his next show in Milan. If you do not know Dani’s work, maybe you might have seen  his collages for the last Acne collection.Two fluorescent pink sculptures caught my eye as well as a bronze face on a beautifully smooth wooden plinth.

I am not an expert, though I can say that I like the raw sensuality of his sculptures . . .

Find below Dani’s press release  and if you are in Milan, go and check his work!

Galleria Suzy Shammah is pleased to present Daniel Silver’s third solo show. The London-based artist (b. 1972) will exhibit large-scale wood sculptures, marble busts and bronze statues animating the gallery environment with ambiguous and totem-like figures. Silver revises pre-existing images with formal precision, injecting conventional materials with a sensual physicality to obtain something wholly new.

The artist subjects the original material, like the trunk of a tree or a copy in marble or clay of a model sculpture, to an intense and laborious process of transformation, attaining a state of “un-knowing” that is essential to his current research. The plinths on which these works rest are fully integrated into the sculptural body, to the extent that it is possible to define them as intrinsically equivalent to the figures themselves. The artist engages with the history of figurative sculpture and his position within this tradition, challenging its conventions.

In this show Daniel Silver expresses the urge to create a realm associated with the phenomenology of remembering: the condensation and screening of memory, the contradiction between personal reminiscence and history, and the use of an aesthetic strategy which never assigns the images a final implication.

Daniel Silver at Galleria Suzy Shammah via San Fermo/Via Moscova 25 – 20212 Milan, 24 Jan – 10 Mar 2012