Exhibition04.02.201504.05.2015
PAST EXHIBITION

Robert Groves

Golden Years

Exhibition04.02.201504.05.2015
PAST EXHIBITION

Robert Groves

Golden Years

Ikon reception, ground floor

On 5 April 1965 Ikon opened the doors of an octagonal glass-walled kiosk in the BullRing shopping precinct. Now to celebrate the 50th anniversary, there will be a constellation of small golden paintings (c. 1965) by founding artist Robert Groves in Ikon’s reception area. They still shine with a luminosity derived from the superimposition of thin layers of oil and lacquer on hardboard. The works reflect the artist’s strong interest in Middle Eastern and South Asian culture, leading him to collect icons and in turn suggest the name ‘Ikon’ for the gallery.

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‘Ikon is intended as an antithesis to exclusive art establishments and galleries … it has been formed because of the need for an accessible place where the exchange of visual ideas can become a familiar reality’. These words ring out of the prospectus for Ikon, published in 1964. They summarise a fundamental proposition that informed the activities of the gallery during its early years, a counteraction to a pervasive cultural conservatism.
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