Thursday 17 May, 2012 - 9pm

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Head of Sculpture Studies at the Henry Moore Institute, Lisa Le  Feuvre, talks to Eisler Curator Daniel F. Herrmann about the role of materials, design and exhibition display in the ideologies of modernity, considering how contemporary artists such as Josiah McElheny have used history and its distortions to reach an understanding of the present.

Lisa Le Feuvre is a curator and writer on art and Head of Sculpture Studies at the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, England. She was curator of contemporary art at the National Maritime Museum, London (2005-10) and taught on the postgraduate Curatorial Programme at Goldsmiths, University of London (2004-10). She was co-curator, with Tom Morton, of British Art Show 7: In the Days of the Comet (2010-11).

Daniel F. Herrmann is Eisler Curator and Head of Curatorial Studies at the Whitechapel Gallery, London. Previous exhibitions include John Stezaker (2010), 'Painter' and The Studio: Paul McCarthy and the Myth of the Artist (National Galleries of Scotland, 2010) and Miroslaw Balka: Entering Paradise (National Galleries of Scotland, 2008).

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