White Wall 25
Lego bricks with aluminium support
2018-
About the work
- Location
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Country: France
City: Paris
Place: British Embassy
White Wall 25 is part of Michael Wilkinson’s ongoing investigation of the concept and form of the wall as a motif, initiated in 2002. Wilkinson has explored this motif in various formats, mostly painting and etched mirrors. In 2009, looking to make a wall sculpture without actual bricks, Wilkinson identified Lego as having an idealised quality that real bricks lacked, closer to structure as concept.
These sleek monochromatic toy brick walls appear calculated at first, impenetrable - oppressive even. Upon closer inspection, however, the stark surfaces are littered with strata of irregular, stained and worn second-hand bricks. Wilkinson sources his material at charity shops, online auction sites – each bearing an inherited patina of age, circumstance, and the handling of generations of children. Wilkinson discovers in his materials moments of human recognition that disrupt a one-dimensional reading of the series.
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Explore
- Places
- Subjects
- Lego, toy, brick wall, wall
- Materials & Techniques
- aluminium, sculpture (as object name), plastic sculpture
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Details
- Artist
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Michael Wilkinson (1965 - )
- Title
- White Wall 25
- Date
- 2018
- Medium
- Lego bricks with aluminium support
- Dimensions
- height: 150 cm, width: 150 cm, depth: 3 cm
- Acquisition
- Purchased from The Modern Institute, Glasgow UK, April 2019
- Provenance
- The Modern Institute, Glasgow UK; from whom purchased by UK Government Art Collection, 2019
- GAC number
- 18802