Jim Lambie- Metal Urbain

This exhibition seems to be mostly concerned with the transformation of metal, though it looses none of Lambies neo-pop art style with bright colours and thick, viscous paint on many surfaces, reflected in the occasional mirrors on the floor. The mirrors sit amongst rusted steel sheets which mix a sinister voyeuristic intent with a strong sense of a factory floor. On the walls sheets of metal have been coloured and folded to look like dog-eared sheets of paper and I cant quite figure out how the metal has been folded like this. On the floor on concrete plinths that partly consume the objects are metal squares of crushed used-to-be-things. It becomes quite fun trying to figure out what used to be a cooker and what used to be a suit of armour and on and on. The suit of armour brings up questions of frivolity and preciousness. It seems an in-grained impulse in me that old things are treated with care, not crushed. However this is tempered with the imagination of how much fun it must be to put things in a compactor and crush them. I wish Id been there.