Eric Bainbridge

Schmalz is juicy. Schmalz is elastic. Schmalz is sexual. Schmalz is out of tune; Schmalz is non-binary; Schmalz has no gender, no race, no religion, no political party, no football club; Schmalz has no agenda; Schmalz is bio, vegan, paleo, Atkins, lactose and gluten intolerant. Schmalz does Love/Hate exceedingly well. Schmalz makes you feel schmalzy.
A schmalzy artwork cannot be translated into words. Schmalz is an excuse. Schmalz is festive, Dionysian;
Schmalz is crusty and juicy, and this can be a physical or conceptual state.
Schmalz doesn’t need other titles. Being schmalzy defies any other sort of classification. Schmalz in non-bourgeois; Schmalz is anti - Anti-Art. Schmalz is Schmaltz. Schmalz is anti-schmalz. Schmalz is nice to you and your friends. Schmalz is a space for non-negotiable differences; a manifestation of human-grain that saves us from being tabula rasa. Schmalz is typing on your phone with fat fingers.
Schmaltz is a show built with materials that do not need affiliations and have an elastic sense of their own materiality.

Eric Bainbridge Solo Show Opening April 27th 6-9 pm Monitor is pleased to announce the first Eric Bainbridge’s solo exhibition in Rome, with whom the gallery started to collaborate a year ago. From the beginning of his career in the 1980s, Bainbridge (Consett, Durham, UK, 1955), has been considered an...

LODGERS (CURATED BY VEIT LOERS) The house itself it at the focal point: civilization and domesticated nature. A transformation on numerous levels, from society to the individual, from the inhabitant to the artifact, from animalism to altruism, from artistic strategy to epiphany. Spiritual, indeed even spiritistic references to nature are...

Curated by George Vasey Workplace Gallery is delighted to announce Potholes, an exhibition of drawings by British sculptor Eric Bainbridge consisting of a selection of works on paper from 1981 to the present day.

Workplace Gallery is proud to present a two-person exhibition of British artist Eric Bainbridge and Los Angeles based artist Joel Kyack. For this exhibition, Bainbridge will present a new body of paintings made from synthetic fur fabric, and Kyack will present a new body of sculpture and painting shown in...

Eric Bainbridge was born in Consett, County Durham, UK in 1955. He completed a Masters in Sculpture at the Royal College of Art, London in 1981. Frequently cited as one of the most influential British artists working in contemporary sculpture Bainbridge has exhibited in important group exhibitions throughout his career...

Workplace Gallery is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition of Eric Bainbridge at Workplace London. ‘Late 90’s Constructions’ brings together a body of works made by Bainbridge in 1997 that specifically address the history of Modernism and the traditional material hierarchies of Modernist Sculpture. In these works Bainbridge employs...

In 2009, the Contemporary Art Society launched a pioneering membership programme for individuals across the North of England, to bring the rich diversity of artistic talent residing in the region to the attention of new audiences and potential collectors. Over the last 4 years, Contemporary Art Society North has organised...

Workplace Gallery are pleased to present space/socialspace a group exhibition of new work by Eric Bainbridge, Ralf Brög, Lothar Götz and James Hutchinson. Conceived initially as a collaborative project between four artists currently working together within the Fine Art department at Sunderland University space/socialspace provides an overarching framework for research...

Eric Bainbridge presents a series of new works made from reclaimed steel and other more incongruous materials, drawing himself closer to the modernist abstraction of the 1950s and ‘60s embodied by sculptors David Smith and Anthony Caro. The sculptures extend his practice of collage, combining both formal and unexpected elements...

Eric Bainbridge Noel Clueit Marcus Coates Jo Coupe Jacob Dahlgren Rachel Foulion Dean Hughes Rachel Lancaster Eftihis Patsourakis

Workplace Gallery is pleased to present Psychic Geography a group exhibition of new and existing works by nine diverse artists. The exhibition includes collage, painting, photography, sculpture, and video that examines the interaction between spaces and people, places and identity. In a new series of collages by Eric Bainbridge, base...

Curata da Marco Meneguzzo, promossa dal Comune di Monza, col patrocinio della Provincia di Monza e Brianza, l’iniziativa presenterà i lavori, dei suoi più importanti protagonisti italiani e internazionali, da Schifano a Ontani, da Schnabel ad Haring, da Paladino a Lupertz, da Barcelò a Basquiat, da Disler a Chia, a molti altri ancora.
Il percorso espositivo analizzerà i principali movimenti di quel periodo e le più conosciute individualità, dalla Transavanguardia italiana ai Nuovi Selvaggi tedeschi, dai graffitisti statunitensi alla Young British Sculpture, dagli Anacronisti ancora italiani alla Figuration Libre francese: circa cinquanta artisti - da Mario Schifano a Mimmo Paladino, Da Francesco Clemente a Luigi Ontani, da Georg Baselitz a Markus Lupertz, da Anselm Kiefer a Helmut Middendorf, da Keith Haring a Jean Michel Basquiat, da Peter Halley a Julian Schnabel, da Miqurel Barcelò a Anish Kapoor a Tony Cragg - rappresenteranno infatti quel discusso periodo attraverso quell'esplosione di colore e di vitalità che furono la pittura e la scultura di quegli anni, che per alcuni simboleggia il riflusso edonistico di quel decennio, per altri il ritorno in forze dell'espressività più autentica e immediata.

WORKPLACE is pleased to present TOMORROW THE FUTURE at Northampton’s Fishmarket Gallery. Tanya Axford Hula Hoops incessantly in a pitch-black room. Randomly exposed by oversensitive ‘slave’ camera flashes triggered by an intermittently firing strobe she circumnavigates performance, photography and sculpture. Well known for his eclectic use of material Eric Bainbridge...

New Modernism meets melamine and sausages in a new work by Eric Bainbridge for his first solo exhibition at Workplace Gallery. Postwurstendung conflates Bainbridge’s ongoing reappraisal of Modernist sculptural principles with arguably the ultimate reductive minimal object - The Frankfurter. Bainbridge’ s elegant and refined white melamine construction nods toward...

Celebrated for his large-scale sculptures of everyday objects covered in man-made fur, Eric Bainbridge has spent the past three decades investigating a variety of materials and concerns. This major solo exhibition combines selected pieces from the 1970s to the present and a unique collection of works on paper. Together they...

Workplace Gallery are pleased to present False Witness - a group exhibition of new and existing works by six gallery artists. Drawing its title from the Ninth Commandment: Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. (Exodus 20:16) False Witness explores moral ambiguity concealed at the periphery of artworks...

Trigon '85: 'Synonyme für Skulpturen'
Steirischer Herbst, Künstlerhaus, Neue Galerie Graz, Austria
Eric Bainbridge
Bazilebustamente
Tom Carr
Bruno Ceccobelli
Olivia Etter
Jean Francois Gavoty
Isa Genzken
Roberto Gnozzi
Georg Held
Michael Kienzer
Kai Kuss
Gruppe Mec
Andre Mohorovicic
Miquel Navarro
Nunzio
Luigi Ontani
Kirsten Ortwed
Erica Pedretti
Jaume Plensa
Matjaz Pocivavsek
Duba Sambolec
Alain Sechas
Gianluca Giorgetti Toraldo
Rosemarie Trockel
Lujo Vodopivec
Manfred Wakolbinger
Franz West
Alison Wilding