Anish Kapoor
Inability to tolerate empty space limits the amount of space available.
W.R. Bion, Cogitations1
The important thing is that at a given moment one arrives at illusion. Around it one finds a sensitive
spot, a lesion, a locus of pain, a point of reversal of the whole of history, insofar as it is the
history of art and insofar as we are implicated in it; that point concerns the notion that the illusion
of space is different from the creation of emptiness.
Jacques Lacan, Ethics2
Space and Solid are interchangeable…hard concrete replaces space, space replaces volume
and the sense of the presence of the human body is made stronger by its exclusion.
Anthony de Ofray writing on the work of Rachael Whiteread
Simplicity is not an end in art, but one reaches simplicity in spite of
oneself by approaching the real meaning of things. Constantine Brancusi
You will be trained in a variety of mold making techniques and exposed to casting materials and methods.
The objective of this assignment it to create an abstraction or reduction of an object or space.
The work should evoke the sensation of touching that form or the negative space made physical. You
may work by reducing or abstracting the form. Conceptually I would like you to consider the essence
of the object, or its negative.
The work could refer to an architectural void that which the body could fit into, the underside of
a stair hall, or a chair, or the space between 2 walls ect. Or it could refer to a physical part
of the body, the space between 2 hands, the abstracted shape/space of ones head, hands, or feet.
Readings/References:
Anish Kapoor: Making Emptiness by Homi K. Bhabha http://www.anishkapoor.com/writing/homibhabha.htm (Online)
Anish Kapoor- http://www.anishkapoor.com/
Do-Ho Suh http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/suh/ (Online)
Women Artist Kiki Smith Uta Grosenick (PDF)
Kiki Smith- Interview Helen Posner (PDF)
Some Notes on Anthony Gormley, Xunta de Galicia (PDF)
Eva Hesse- http://www.sfmoma.org/hesse/
Kiki Smith- http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2003/kikismith/
Spaced Occupied, Making a Presence
The Body as Object
Anish Kapoor, Jene Highstien, Cy Tombly, Racheal Whiteread, Brancusi, Arp, Carl Andrea, Brian Hunt,
Christopher Willmarth, Isamu Noguchi, Anthony Gormly, Tony Craig, Jane Antoine, Rachel Lachowitz, Ann
Hamilton.
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