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No, this Nick Hornby is not a writer, but a British sculptor born in 1980 who has been collaborating with the British-Balinese painter Sinta Tantra (*1979) for several years. The Choi & Lager Gallery is currently showing the results of this collaboration, intricately effective colored sculptures and some Tantra paintings.
Both works are latecomers to postmodernism, tricky mixes of quotes, elegant metamorphoses of the historical. Hornby develops these three-dimensional puzzles on the computer, but then produces his all-view sculptures using traditional handcraft. With every change in perspective they appear transformed. Two fairly classic busts conceal ever-changing profile views of human heads. The figure of a striding figure, which also turns out to be Brancusi's stylized rooster, is astonishing. The colored frames set their own accents, a kind of pop camouflage formalism with hard edges and a pastel, sophisticated color. Quite clever and effective, also amusing, in many ways.
Circumnavigation recommended.