“….The logic of the form is carried by the surface, and the notion of a dualistic split between inside and outside is resolved through a visual unification of meaning of the external structure and the experimental center of the work.”
Rosalind Krauss on Vadimir Tatlin’s, Monument to the Third International
Analytic Space: futurism and contructivism. Passages in Modern Sculpture
A work inspired by the interior structure and/ or the intersection of planes making up an architectural, mechanical or organic form.
For the assignment you will explore the interior skeletal and external planer structure of architecture, machinery, or organic forms. Formally the work will express the dynamic of a self-supporting structure, express patterning, movement, rhythm, and progression. The work will inhabit space. Both the structure and the negative space it defines will be perceived and inhabited mentally and possibly physically.
The material of the sculpture is as much a part of its subject as are the techniques and craft used to form the materials. The process and materials will be carefully discussed and chosen so to specifically respond to the forms you wish to create.
Demonstrations and works shops on bent wood lamination, lashing, poriveting, joining wood bending and riveting aluminum will be demonstrated. Stretched cloth, plastic sheeting, wire and rope may be used. The scale of the work should be at least 2’ and no bigger than 8’ so that it relates to the body on an architectural scale.
Passages in Modern Sculpture-Analytic Space: Futurism and Constructions
Chapter 2. Rosalind Krauss
Mary Miss- Perimeters
David Nash- Nature to Nature, Length and Limb
Web:
http://www.gasworks.org.uk/varts/yue_lup/index.htm
Cronelia Parker http://www.tate.org.uk/colddarkmatter/texts.htm
Eva Hesse http://www.sfmoma.org/hesse/
Do-ho Suh http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/suh/index.html
Steven Hull http://www.stevenholl.com/,
Alen Wexner http://www.allanwexlerstudio.com
Pedro Reyes
Mexico
Sol Lewitt, Richard Serra, Constantine Brancusi, Alexander Calder, Antonio Pevsner, Kurt Schwitters, David Smith, Tadashi Kawamata, Mo Edoga, Richard Deacon, Jackie Windsor, Leanore Tawney, Louis Barigon, Steven Hull, Edward Mayer, Robert Stackhouse, Robert Morris, Carl Andrea, Martin Puryear, David Nash, Magdelina Jetralova, Alan Wexner, Chris Dury, Mary Miss, David Nash, Martin Puryear, Alice Acycock
Shaker furniture, Japanese construction, Gothic Architecture, Eiffel Tower, Machintosch Furniture, Ethiopian Bamboo Hut, Horuji Temple in Japan, Green Houses.
Look at crystallization, cellar division, Japanese joinery, window blinds, fans, wheels, rib cages, birdcages, and support beams.
While working on this piece you will all be trained to use and checked out for safety on the woodshop equipment. Please sign up for a training session.
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