Hauser and Wirth's Piccadilly branch is currently houseing a wonderful show by Phyllida Barlow. The initial work as you enter from Piccadilly at first makes you stoop as you feel as though there are tones of concrete suspended above you on flimsy wooden poles, and then a sudden relief comes as one discovers that is in fact polystyrene painted like concrete that is floating above your head.
The show continues downstairs in the very bowls of the building where further sculptures are reminiscent of incomplete forgotten objects subject to aging, but also others where by they have grouped together to form almost packs of art. There is also an interesting juxtaposition set by the grand wooden rooms and the poorly painted forgotten works within.
There is a lot of fantastic works here that create an interesting visual setting with their surroundings, especially the one in the roof space, untitled pompoms 2011.
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