Some Dimensions of my Lunch: Conceptual Art in Britain (1956 – 1979) Part I: Roelof LOUW

Richard Saltoun Gallery presents a season of four one-month exhibitions devoted to Conceptual Art made in Britain during the 60s and 70s. Held between 19 May - 30 September 2016, the exhibition is concurrent to the major exhibition at Tate Britain, ‘Conceptual Art in Britain: 1964 – 1979’, 12 April – 29 August 2016.

The season will open with a solo show devoted to Roelof LOUW. Born 1936 in South Africa, Louw came to London to study sculpture at St Martins in 1961. He was almost unique in being one of few British Artists to exhibit in the key European exhibitions that defined Conceptual Art: Op Losse Schroeven, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam and When Attitudes Become Form, Kunsthalle Bern, Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld and ICA London (all 1969). Louw went on to represent Britain at Between Man and Matter, the famous 10th Tokyo Biennale in 1970, where he exhibited Rolled Lead Work (1970). He was included in Lucy Lippard’s celebrated Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972, the first anthology to document conceptual art made between 1966 and 1972.