One Hundred Variations on A Theme & Other Stories

This exhibition, One Hundred Variations on a Theme & Other Stories continues charting a map of restless creativity. Milan has produced a collection of small cast plaster works, as well as a range of sculptural works from recent times, that explore the possibilities of materials, form and space. 

One hundred ships, each adrift on seas of interpretation. Each is a vessel not just of passage, but of memory and imagination, a symbol of journey and transformation, repeating an idea, following through, watching the picture change, adding and subtracting, altered by a hundred subtle gestures, edges softened or sharpened with fleeting moods, surfaces etched by passing thoughts. A tactile poem, a gallery of minor metamorphoses, the story of a motif told a hundred ways. 

The sculptures come from a place of exploration, seeking, and playing. Assemblages, sculptures, constructions, all of these come from the desire to “make”, to work through an idea, to leave something behind.