It has to be said that the Hayward Gallery has always put out an exhibition that hits the heart ️

🔔7 Feb –⁠ 6 May 2024
📍Hayward Gallery Art & exhibitions
💰£18 – £19, Free for Members & under-12s

🎫 : free for ordinary members, £18, weekday under-30s £8, students £15, under-12s free.

Hayward Gallery's 'When Forms Come Alive' exhibition covers more than 60 years of contemporary sculpture, highlighting how artists have skillfully blended the dynamic, fluid and organically grown elements we are all familiar with.

Start of summer, ran to the south bank to see the exhibition, a door is the legendary jellyfish lanterns, many people are automatically lying flat mode viewing, the third booth focus works untitled, close to the original is N cone model composed of the sphere, the staff is still on the scene to take samples let us touch, explain questions, such as how to install transportation, the quality is very light, You can see them shaking slightly when the air conditioner is on above... .

Many exhibits, especially those upstairs, are actually better viewed from a distance, and you can feel the vitality of flow. Unfortunately, the space is limited, and on Sunday, there are quite a lot of people and the empty no-man's land like White Cube can not be compared.

After all, the theme of the entire exhibition is the sculpture works of 21 artists in the past 60 years. The exhibition cost 20 pounds, it seems, because I am not a member, but I still like and recommend them.

Spanning 60 years of contemporary sculpture, this exhibition focuses on how artists have used familiar experiences of movement and organic growth.

Masterpieces by 21 international artists on display, from the graceful gestures of dancers to the breaking of waves, from the flow of molten metal to the intricacies of cobwebs, reflect the profound experience of flow and continuous change that art forms can evoke when they are brought to life.

From the gestures of the dancers to the breaking of the waves, from the flow of molten metal to the interweaving of spider webs, the works of art in When Forms Come Alive draw inspiration from many areas, outlining the experience of flow and change.

The sculptures undulate, droopy, erupt, cascade and multiply haphazard, attracting the gaze of the senses and eliciting a physical response. In our increasingly digital and dematerialized age, these works of art recall the joy of gesture and movement, the poetry of gravity, and the experience of feeling itself.

These works are energetic, proclaiming that nothing in the world remains the same, that everything is in motion, boiling, changing and transforming. Or heaving, or light and sagging, or like a volcano, or layered, or even spread out in disorder, they invite the audience to feel with touch, to feel with gaze.

In an age of increasingly digital, intangible communication, these works of art remind us of the pleasures of gesture and movement, the aesthetics of gravity, and the allure of sensory experience.