Not exact matches
Casa Maleki's interiors draw attention to its
construction materials: steel beams and concrete
walls contrast with warm
wooden floors and stone tiles.
His
constructions often rest on
wooden legs and lean against the
wall, asking us to consider them as painterly props that act like signs and surrogate figures.
The
wooden construction walls, which run through the exhibition, deliberately resemble a market hall or fair, with works displayed on both sides to include the large number of artworks.
In early sculptures such as Untitled (Latin Study), 1985, he used
wooden armatures to create three - dimensional
constructions that appear as constellations of floating painted brushstrokes rendered tangible, their shadows producing flat compositions on the
walls behind them.
He combines the pieces using a
wooden - peg
construction and installs a sequence of the ad hoc assemblages at eye level on the surrounding
walls.
The stand out booths to my mind included the
wall mounted
wooden guns fabricated from found objects by André Robillard represented by Delmes & Zander, these guns are child - like in
construction and invite the viewer to consider the dynamic between play and real world war.
At one hut, Larose has exposed one of the exterior
walls to show the
construction technique that employed a woven lattice of
wooden strips called wattle.