Raising the Bar at mima
Napkin rings, Rudolph Bott, silver, 2007
Curated by Amanda Game, Raising the Bar: Influential Voices in Metal features some of the world’s best metal artists.
Running at mima, Middlesbrough until 10 May, the group she’s selected are diverse in terms of studio practice and nationality – British audiences will know Malcolm Appleby, Simone Ten Hompel and Michael Rowe but may not have come across work by German Rudolf Bott or the Australian Robert Foster – but all have what she describes as ‘a particular hands-on kind of thinking’. ‘All share a love and knowledge of the language of metal and have both the imaginative and intellectual ability to use their formidable skill to create extraordinary objects’, she explains.
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