Saturday 8 October 2016

Pump House - Photography Week 31 (2016)

One of the summer exhibits at the Nottingham Contemporary was Pump House by Michael Beutler.

Pump House was a series of rooms and tunnels made from recycled paper, wood, cardboard, textiles and plastics. The whole construction was like the best den you could have imagined as a child where shiny materials, bright colours, tubes made of paper and ridged card gained some extra meaning and significance in the creative mind.

Watching people engage with the art by removing their shoes, walking across a carpet of bound colourful cloth, smiling as they did so, convinced me that the Pump House had the ability to transport people away from reality if only for a couple of minutes - a demonstration of art succeeding.

From my point of view it was as Aladdin's Cave of texture, colour, shape and pattern, and with the permission of the Nottingham Contemporary I was able to capture some of the details in this set of images:
































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