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Bill Culbert


"Since the late 1960s, Culbert has made minimal sculptures that refer to both the physics and metaphysics of light. Fluorescent tubes pierce plastic vessels, illuminating them from within. Culbert’s bottles are containers of light, their interiors, their thickness and the secrets of their construction revealed. The simple and definite materiality of Culbert’s objects is given an extra dimension by their ghost-like emanation. They are factual in their material presence and metaphoric in their allusion to the natural world. Using generic, ready-made, mass-produced components, Culbert creates assemblages that are modular and monochromatic. These two aspects of his work establish his signature and aesthetic rhythm. When colour does appear in his sculptures, as it does in the bottles and caps of some of the smaller works in this exhibition, the attractive optical quality of colour is opposed to the dazzlingly luminous presence of actual light. Light, that which enables vision is also that which cannot properly be looked at."


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