Mark di Suvero

Albion opens with a show by the renowned American sculptor Mark di Suvero, his first in the UK.

Of fourteen works shown, two will be sited outside the gallery on the riverbank. These signature steel beam constructions bespeak strength, beauty, and form on a monumental scale, and can be walked through, under, and around.

Mark di Suvero was born in Shanghai, China before moving to San Francisco at the outbreak of World War II. In 1957 he moved to New York where he began creating what he called "cubist, open spatial sculptures". In 1960 he was pinned under an elevator shaft and left partially paralyzed, but he did not allow this to diminish his fervour for creation. He continued making sculpture with the same energy that may still be seen in his work today. Indeed, at the age of 70, he shows no signs of slowing down, and his latest work reflects his ongoing vigour and zest for life.

Important di Suvero exhibitions include a 1975 retrospective at The Whitney Museum, New York, numerous shows at the Storm King Art Center, New York, the 1995 Venice Biennale, where seven large sculptures were installed along the canals, and in 1997 a city-wide exhibition in Paris, including four sculptures in the Explanade des Invalides. More recent exhibitions include the John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, Laumerier Sculpture Park, St Louis, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, and Akira Ikeda Gallery, Berlin.

Mark di Suvero lives in the US, and has studios in New York, California, and Chalon-sur-Saone, France.

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