Her work transcends the boundaries between past and present, nature and culture, the human being and matter.
Emily Young (*1951, London) is recognized as one of the most important British sculptors of her generation. Her work transcends the boundaries between past and present, nature and culture, the human being and matter. Carved from a material that appears at once ancient and fully present, her figures merge an archaic sensibility with a profound contemporary awareness.
The gallery exhibition brings contemporary sculpture and Old Master painting into direct dialogue, creating a conversation across the centuries. Young’s works encounter the masterpieces of the Old Masters not as their heirs, but on equal terms: an intense dialogue between different forms of vision, in which the fleeting moment captured on canvas is measured against the millennia-long permanence of stone.