These devices work well in
a gridded floor sculpture, but several vertical variations lack mystique.
Not exact matches
They are coupled with a Carl Andre
floor sculpture, a link that makes little sense except that both form
grids.
For unlike Andre's
floor sculptures, which are fashioned from the strictly impersonal logic of the
grid, Steegmann Mangrané's are drawn, cut and organised according to a logic that not only defies the
grid, but even immediate human understanding (although this particular perversion of the
grid evolved from a drawing featured in the Morfogenesis — Cripsis presentation mentioned above), transforming it into something if not more natural, then less inclined to impose order at the expense of the natural, while casting doubt upon what we traditionally assume to be natural.
Carl Andre (b1935) became a leading artist in the emergence of Minimalism in the United States in the mid-60s, making
sculptures out of ordinary industrial materials — wood, bricks and metals — arranged on the
floor in simple linear or
grid - like patterns.
Yau writes: «it seems to me that Plimack - Mangold's early investigations of space should be credited with initiating a dialogue in opposition to Frank Stella's stripe paintings, which squeezed space out of paintings altogether, and the flat,
grid - like
floor sculptures that Carl Andre began after 1965.»
One of the founders of minimalism) in
sculpture, he is famous for his
grid - based
floor pieces and for his large outdoor works.
Occupying both
floors of the massive gallery, the exhibition features one of the first works that the artist made of his own body using a plaster mold and a lead skin, titled Bridge, from his 1985 series Bodycases, and a new work that takes the
grid of horizontal and vertical lines in Bridge as the point of departure for a freestanding
sculpture that maps the internal volumes of the body.
The centerpiece of the exhibition is the
floor sculpture 3D 1 72 (1972) made up of 13 parts fitting along the contours of a distorted
grid and encapsulating Moon's interest in movement and his desire to expand painting into architecture.
It appears in this exhibition in the form of a
sculpture consisting of a
grid of aluminum tiles, punctuated by irregularly shaped openings that give way to the
floor below.
In retrospect, it seems to me that Plimack Mangold's early investigations of space should be credited with initiating a dialogue in opposition to Frank Stella's stripe paintings, which squeezed space out of paintings altogether, and the flat,
grid - like
floor sculptures that Carl Andre began after 1965.
A
grid of metal tiles, reminiscent of a Carl Andre
floor sculpture, has for instance been riddled with circular holes.
Andre is famous for his
sculptures made of ordinary industrial materials which are arranged directly on the
floor in simple linear arrangements or
grids.
Curved wooden benches and stools «grow» from a
gridded floor of dyed timber installed in the
sculpture gallery at English stately home Chatsworth House.