Dimensions: displayed: 1670 x 2045 x 310 mm
Copyright: © Grenville Davey | CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED, Photo: Tate
Editor: Grenville Davey's "Ce & Ce" presents these imposing, weathered circular forms. The rust and patination give a real sense of age and weight. What structural relationships do you see within this work? Curator: The stark geometry, the circle bisected, offers a fascinating interplay between symmetry and asymmetry. Notice how the material’s surface disrupts the purity of form, introducing an element of chance. It asks, what does it mean to contain? Editor: So, it is all about the relationship between form and material, containing and chance. It's helpful to focus on those elements. Curator: Precisely. The objecthood and how it reconfigures our perceptions is what is significant.
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Davey’s sculpture in the late 1980s was preoccupied with circularity and pairing. Although abstract, the informal positioning and steel lips of the circles suggest the lids of vats, or giant paint pots, momentarily set to one side. By subtly altering the geometry of the circle Davey subverts notions of ideal beauty and uniformity. The streaked surface of the two parts of Ce & Ce, with its traces of poured acid, underscores this subversion of purity. The title suggests a visual pun about looking at a work in which one element partially eclipses the other behind it. Gallery label, February 2011
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