Lynn Chadwick: The Complete Prints

Pangolin London presents an exhibition focusing on the prints of celebrated sculptor Lynn Chadwick. Featuring screenprints and lithographs created throughout his illustrious career, the exhibition highlights Chadwick’s adept control of line and form in two dimensions and his skill at creating strong graphic images where he could experiment with colour and composition.

This is the first exhibition of its kind in London and explores the depth of Lynn Chadwick’s visual thinking by presenting his print oeuvre alongside related sculptures.

In 1956, the year Lynn Chadwick represented Britain at the Venice Biennale, he chose to exhibit as many drawings as he did sculptures. This was also the year Chadwick first produced a print for sale. Created to accompany a monograph by Swiss publisher Jürg Janett, with a text by art historian Herbert Read, Chadwick produced a limited-edition lithograph, Teddy Boy and Girl (1956), derived from the 1955 welded sculpture of the same name. This lithograph – with its pair of angular figures in pleated coats – brings out the sculpture’s fashion-plate quality and its title references and quietly celebrates the emergence of the first distinctive postwar youth subculture of the 1950s.

Chadwick’s graphic work carries the same visual language as his sculpture with their sharp edges and triangular, spindly limbs.

Free

Wednesday – Saturday, 10:00 – 18:00