Michael E. Smith

Michael E. Smith’s artistic practice is concerned with removing the layers of mediation attributed to mundane, everyday objects, stripping them down to their most basic, veridical form. Using a combination of natural and manmade materials to construct his sculptures, Smith casts the exhibition site as a foil for his minimal sculptures, mirroring the vacuity of the negative gallery space in the quotidian objects. But the sculptures do not represent empty gestures, free from connotation. They demonstrate how, even as stripped back as they are, their form is always tied to their function, and their mere presence carries traces from the outside world, piercing the incubatory, sterilised exhibition space. Written by Goldsmiths CCA ...

Over the years, the gallery has developed a programme of exhibitions with Italian and international artists, focusing on themes related to time, space and the human condition. Moving to Milan in 2003, developed a narrative connected to a nomadic attitude, using different spaces in the city. ZERO... has collaborated with national and international museums, as well as public and private institutions.