Sculpture Network
My interest in this exhibition right now is not the artwork itself; I find it difficult - and unfair to the artists - to judge any art without going to see/experience it 'in the flesh'. What interests me here are two things (and logging it here safeguards/archives it for future reference): firstly, the highlighted sections - in particular the "... accentuates the process of making her sculptures by leaving the traces of her physical work on the material. The charm of improvisation ...", something that is really firing me at the moment - and 2) the beginning of the commentary on the video, where he explains that, rather than an art-historical biography of the artists, this exhibition tells the story of concepts, i.e. proportion, relationships of size, dimensions, distance from one element to another (I understand that to mean placement or placing in relation to each other and in relation to the exhibition space), and distance between the sculpture/work and the viewer.
We are given an explicit invitation to view this work in a specific way. I'm not so keen on the explicit, directional instruction of how to view an art work here, but I think the giving of a point of access to the viewer can be useful, particularly if the work in question is pushing the boundaries of what art is perceived to be by the general public, i.e. what they believe it should be, what they expect it to be. Without such a point of access, work like this is all too often dismissed with contempt.
I've been working on finding a way to achieve this 'offering a point of access' in relation to some of the more experimental things I've been working on. I have no desire to give an instruction on how the work should be viewed; I want to keep my influence and presence as an artist to a minimum once the work is on show or has been purchased by someone. I, the artist, am no longer important at that stage (I therefore also don't sign my work). The piece speaks for itself; the object (and its story) becomes all important.
Projections of poetic imagination and a personal experience of Greek idealized concept of sculpture
Whatness
Esther Kläs and Johannes Wald
Until 21.06. 2015
Exhibition curator: Friedrich Meschede
Assistant curator: Meta Marina Beeck
Kunsthalle Bielefeld
Bielefeld, Germany
www.kunsthalle-bielefeld.de
Esther Kläs and Johannes Wald
Until 21.06. 2015
Exhibition curator: Friedrich Meschede
Assistant curator: Meta Marina Beeck
Kunsthalle Bielefeld
Bielefeld, Germany
www.kunsthalle-bielefeld.de
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