Daniel Silver’s practice is influenced by the art of the ancient world, modernism, Sigmund Freud and psychoanalytic theories. His new body of work conveys a sense of timelessness, engaging with the qualities of history – natural, geological and human – as departure points for making.
In this exhibition the visitor encounters a host of individual presences occupying the gallery space. The figures are a celebration of their own materiality and reflect on what it is to be human, and in the world, both physically and psychologically.
Here, Silver returns to the most traditional sculptural materials: bronze and marble. He has long been fascinated by marble, a substance with many different histories and associations, from its emergence as a metamorphic rock created under the influence of great heat and pressure in deep geological time to its use in classical art, architecture and beyond. Silver sources it from an old family stone yard in Pietrasanta, Italy. There, pieces of the quarried stone may have sat for hundreds of years collecting history before being selected.
| Duration | 29 November 2024 - 18 January 2025 |
| Times | Tuesday–Friday: 11–6 Saturday: 11–5 |
| Cost | Free |
| Venue | Frith Street Gallery |
| Address | 17-18 Golden Square, London, W1F 9JJ |
| Contact | 020 7494 1550 / info@frithstreetgallery.com / www.frithstreetgallery.com |