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 to access audio and video on collective you need real player.Beaded pineapples and concrete jungles. Being confronted by the oddities which make up Max Hymes’ first solo show (aside from the stark lighting) is like stumbling into a voodoo practitioner’s lair. The show consists of a series of understated natural-patterned prints, yet the main attraction is his series of sculptures, which see a popular return to craftsmanship, without using that as an excuse to ignore more cerebral intentions. Confronting the limiting lack of space the gallery presents, Hymes has housed each of his sculptures within their own world on plinths or in front of screens and mirrors. Each methodically made piece curbs contrary materials – beads, stones, sheets of polished metals, blocks of wood and bundles of feathers – making out of them proudly black-beaded pineapples and pumpkin-shaped jars which you’d expect to sit upon an altar containing your mother’s ashes. Each object, sitting at only a few inches high, is a little bit magic. Though pertaining to nature with shapes and material, they seem more like scaled down architectural models of some wildly ambitious plan for our future; perhaps what our concrete jungles would look like if God had to maintain the whole thing while nursing as bad a hangover as the rest of us. Max Hymes is at Bearspace, London, until 13 October 07.
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