We are delighted to present The Walking Moon, Time Traveller, Daniel Silver’s first solo exhibition at CFHILL. Encompassing marble, clay, and bronze sculptures, it marks the first instance the artist presents work in different media, displaying his multifaceted practice within the medium.
Silver’s approach conveys a deep respect for the histories and traditions of each material but carves out his own distinctly contemporary aesthetic. The marble figures evoke a 21st century renaissance of Ancient Greek and Roman sculpture, albeit one that subverts the preoccupation with an idealised, absolute beauty. The painted clay figures constitute a type of totemic vessel, an invitation to understand the world and our place in it through looking. But are the figures in Chorus the dramatic collective voice in a Greek tragedy or rowdy hooligans from a football stadium? What’s the big difference anyway?
Silver’s sculptures are a nexus of mythological narratives and expressions, converging millennia of visual human history. Painted on paper, sculpted from clay, cast in bronze, or carved out of marble, the works presented in the exhibition all carry the sensual trace of touch, movement, and rhythm – a geology of the human hand.
Works in this exhibition
