The artist unveilied his new sculpture this month in central London, where you can see it for free until summer
A sphere of polished stainless steel shines proudly in London’s late-winter sun, reflecting the greenery and buildings of the slice of London that surorunds it. The piece is known as SISTER, a new installation by Jewish Londoner David Breuer-Weil, and it sits in Hanover Square, where it can be viewed freely until the end of July thanks to Westminster City of Sculpture and E & R Cyzer Gallery.
From afar it resembles an egg, but up close you start to see the nuances that reveal the form of a woman. "I titled it SISTER for two reasons,” the artist explains. “It is a tribute to my sister, a teacher who has lived and worked in Jerusalem for over three decades, but it is also literally a sister piece to my very similar sculptures in Shaare Zedek and Teddy Kollek Park in Jerusalem.”
Breuer-Weil is a painter as well as a sculptor. He studied at Central Saint Martins under Henry Moore’s assistant Shelley Fausset and at Clare College, Cambridge. He is known for his shows of vast painted canvases (known as the ‘Projects’) and his works have been installed in public spaces across the world. In 2018, his ‘flying man’ Flight was installed at Marble Arch and in 2019, Visitor 2, a pair of upended feet, was exhibited at Istanbul’s Abdülmecid Efendi Pavilion, to coincide with the Istanbul Biennial.
Although mostly known for working in bronze in the UK, with SISTER Breuer-Weil wanted to bring a “spiritual element and the light of Jerusalem to the English soil”, which inspired the reflective composition. “Many polished steel works are only about the outer shape and external reflections,” he says, “but by cutting into it, cracking it open, I have found it is possible to generate an incredible complexity of imagery that can warrant spending a great deal of time studying the sculpture interactively in time, suggesting a fourth dimension beyond the three dimensions of traditional sculpture.”
By Danielle Goldstein
Photos by Sam Roberts
SISTER by David Breuer-Weil is on display until Monday 31 July. FREE. Hanover Square, W1S 1JD. davidbreuerweil.com