Genzken's totemic columns, pedestal works and collages combine disparate aspects from many sources in nonsensical, harmonious sculptures: precariously stacked assemblages of potted plants, designer furniture, empty shipping crates and photographs, among other things, arranged with the traditions of modernist sculpture in mind. Devoid of the weightiness and overpowering scale seen in the sculptures of Genzken's Minimalist predecessors, these works abandon notions of order and power, allowing the viewer to relate to the works' inherently human qualities of fragility and vulnerability. "I have always said that with any sculpture you have to be able to say, although this is not a ready-made, it could be one," has said Genzken. "That's what a sculpture has to look like. It must have a certain relation to reality".
Through 12 January 2013
Isa Genzken
Hauser & Wirth Savile Row
23 Savile Row, London