Realistic Sculptures...

12:23 a.m.

05/07/18 - Those who walk by 29, Sackville road, in London, will bump into a small painting caught in a fishing hook that hangs from a balcony at Lazinc Gallery. The canvas has a little painted worm.

The Fisherman, by Mark Jenkins (2018) - Detail

Mixed media / Measures: 183 x 120 x 134 cm

If you look up, you’ll discover the figure holding the fishing cane. This realistic street installation belongs to Mark Jenkins (USA, 1970) and it’s called, quite appropriately, "The Fisherman". He looks like an ordinary human being, except that we can not see his face, which renders this installation deeply enigmatic.

The Fisherman, by Mark Jenkins (2018)

Mixed media / Measures: 183 x 120 x 134 cm

Once inside the gallery we get to see these bodies in many different positions, a combination both comic and sinister. The figures are clones of Mark Jenkins himself and of his assistant Sandra Fernández. Each piece explores the processes through which we, as visitors, interact with art but in a very unconventional way.

Dead by Flowers, by Mark Jenkins (2018)

Mixed media / Measures: 323 x 68 x 178 cm

A man about to lose his head in a guillotine by a still life or a girl with her hair dyed in the same color as that of the painting in front of her are just a few examples of these pieces that move us with their realism. As we circle them, it’s impossible not to feel their “human presence.”

Sunny Day, by Mark Jenkins (2018)

Mixed media / Measures: 162 x 56 x 39 cm (sculptures) y 130 x 250 x 4 cm (canvas)

A man that pretended to be Icarus, with his face on the floor and his opened arms holding feathers or a pair of siameses, joined by their heads, complete the room that welcomes us with a figure on a pedestal, as a tribute to traditional sculpture.

The Face of Gravity, by Mark Jenkins (2018)

Mixed media / Measures: 210 x 157 x 80 cm

Head in the Head, by Mark Jenkins (2018)

Mixed media / Measures: 168 x 72 x 44 cm

The Luxury of Isolation, by Mark Jenkins (2018)

Mixed media / Measures: 304 x 128 x 128 cm

This is a high impact exhibition that reflects on deep subjects like suicide, loneliness or depression. The faceless heads, always covered, add a certain drama to the action of these ghostly figures that, as spectators, we sometimes chose not to see.