Brent Artists Resource (BAR) in collaboration with The Tricycle is proud to present Broken: an artist needs to break a material in order to make an artwork curated by Lorenzo Belenguer.  

The show concentrates on new ways that current artists respond to the use of materials and ready-made objects in their practice. Artists seem to use found or ready-made objects in a more subtle way. Perhaps the current socio-economic situation allows them to take it to the next step. The curator has invited artists from Mexico, Spain, Saudi Arabia and England.

 Lorenzo Belenguer creates work which straddles the realms of sculpture, painting and drawing. In one area of his practice, he transforms metal objects into sculptures that evolve from the visual rhetoric of Minimalism and double as ‘canvases’.

Javier Calderon will give a performance titled Body Paint  (Monday 7 November at 7.30pm), which is a participatory performance, where the artist gives the public various cleansing products for the body. The results will be a collection of geometric minimalist works, which will be on display for the duration of the exhibition.

Hadil Moufti is an abstract painter working predominantly in oils, depicting eternal themes of the natural landscape.

Fiona Quadmani will present an installation on the wall by a series of cones made out of plaster and found wood.

Pete Webster has photographed for this show Jantar Mantar, a site in India where scientific instruments were constructed in the early 18th Century to determine the exact alignment of the sun, moon, planets and stars to assist in making predictions.

Brent Artists Resource (BAR) was founded in 1984 and is based in Willesden Green Library Centre. The leading forum for contemporary visual art in Brent, selected last year by the BBC as one of the top community galleries in London.