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The Life of Forms at the Hayward Gallery (Feb 2024)

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The Life of Forms
Where? Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, Southbank When? 7th February to 6th May 2024 Closed until 29 Jun, then 11 AM to 7 PM (Wed-Sat); 10 AM to 6 PM (Sun)Tickets? £18 See southbankcentre.co.uk Parking: Nearby car parks Buses: 1, 4, 26, 59, 68, 76, 77, 139, 168, 171, 172, 176, 188, 211, 243, 341, 381, 507, 521, RV1 Bus fares Trains: The closest station is Waterloo Bakerloo Jubilee Northern Wat&City Other nearby stations: Embankment and Temple Train fares

The Hayward Gallery will be putting on an exhibition spanning 50 years of contemporary art, highlighting the ways in which artists draw on familiar experiences of movement, flux and organic growth.

With inspirations ranging from the flow of molten metal to the breaking of a wave, the artworks on display conjure up the fluid and shifting realms of experience.

In an era when our encounters are increasingly digitised and disembodied, these sculptures invite trigger physical responses, calling to mind the pleasures of gesture, movement, and the experience of sensation itself.

The exhibition includes work by 21 international artists: Ruth Asawa, Nairy Baghramian, Phyllida Barlow, Lynda Benglis, Michel Blazy, Paloma Bosquê, Olaf Brzeski, Choi Jeong Hwa, Tara Donovan, DRIFT, Eva Fàbregas, Holly Hendry, EJ Hill, Marguerite Humeau, Jean-Luc Moulène, Senga Nengudi, Ernesto Neto, Martin Puryear, Matthew Ronay, Teresa Solar Abboud and Franz West.

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