Portable Sculpture: Fold up, pack down or made on the move sculpture – Lecture by Jo Melvin

To coincide with the exhibition ‘Portable Sculpture’ at Henry Moore Institute, Leeds (18th May – 29th August), Jo Melvin will deliver a lecture that casts a retrospective glimpse at a few precedents before focusing in particular on representations of currency as a sculptural form and its distribution in contemporary practice. Melvin will show a number of different works to explore these various strategic approaches to sculpture. These will include British artist Richard Deacon’s Blue Forms 1993, PVC vests that were made for a dance collaboration with Hervé Robbe, given to each member of the audience to wear whilst occupying the same space as the dancers; and a multiple by Italian artist, Elisabetta Benassi, Per una lira vendo tutti i sogni miei 2008 (‘for one lira I will sell all my dreams’), a cast of a coin defaced to include a cut out image of Italy that had never been represented on Italian coins.

This lecture will be premiered on YouTube on Wednesday 18 August at 6pm. It will be available to watch on the Henry Moore Institute Website or YouTube channel and will be followed the week after by a live discussion with Dr Jo Melvin on Zoom on Wednesday 25 August at 6pm.

To register for this free event click here.