Category: connection between forms

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Lost in Thought

Artist : Tony Cragg

Year : 2012

Size : 50x220x300 cm

Media : Wood

connection between this artwork and my practice:

The first reasons that I have collected this item was the title and the form of the artwork.

Cragg has a strong connection with the making process and his use of material. He states that making is a path way for his life. Each of his works leads him to new forms and new idea to make new work and express new emotions.

He is informed by the materiality of the material he uses – but he intervenes and sculpts with his own formal values. he pushes the materials he uses to do something and become something that wasn’t thought to be possible. he uses traditional materials in constructional – different way.

Similarity of my ideas to his, comes together when he says: ” Good ideas don’t make good art necessary”. Making is not only one unique decision, through making we make many decision and express many ideas. It’s a combination of thoughts that happen during time, combination of different emotions and feelings create a unique form.

Recently In my research, I have thought a lot about why I try to create new forms? and why something as a unique formless and nonrepresentational form specifically. Looking at his work I think I found some answers to my questions . His work is unique and not boring for me, even though he has some form which is figurative or representational but because he combines these forms with other forms to create a new conversation.

Sculpting is moving and forming material, experimenting with the material. it is important to mention, he constantly works and combines forms, making something quite organic, voluminous and curved with so many layers out of something as structured as wood. it looks so planned out with sections and mapping and highly processual. I believe that makes him impressive.

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Formalism

I don’t even know if I should write anything about this or the photo is clear enough.

In most of my work the importance of aesthetic for me was so clear, The visual balance, composition of forms, appearance are things that covers all my ideas. finding about formalism helped me to understand my critical framework.

Choose of abstract for as a universal language, visual balance to create universal element comes out of my works. Learning about formalism helped me to understand what I make and why forms and visual balance are important for me.

I think formalism doesn’t only cover my artwork also answers most of my question about my previous works . In first semester at MFA I was arguing about my identity of being not representative of Iranian girl and searching for a meaning to talk about accepting me as only a human. My struggling of not belonging in a concept of Westerners nor Easterners.

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Little Known Series Black FRP

Artist : Nobuo Sekine

Year : 2014

Size : –

Media : –

connection between this artwork and my practice:

 “These works mark a crucial shift in Sekine’s practice — away from a focus on raw materials and malleability toward the surface qualities of solidified forms. Sekine deliberately made it difficult to identify the material used to create these works — at first glance it is not evident whether they are made of stone, glass, metal, or plastic. When installing these works, Sekine considers their placement to be a “topological scene” governed by aesthetic principles similar to those found in Zen rock gardens — namely, asymmetric arrangements of disparate elements that combine to represent a broader landscape of seas, islands, and mountains. ” (Blum & Poe 2019)

The interesting part of this artwork is the way Sekine has moved away from the materiality of material in this artwork deliberately and only focused on form and surface identity. We can still see that the relationship of the object with the space is one of the important elements of the artwork. It is interesting to see how making materiality of the object less important would shift our perception to other elements in the artwork such as contrast between the surface, shapes, aesthetic, connection to zen garden stone, placement or any other border readings .

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Terracotta Circle

Artist : Gilberto Zorio

Year : 1969

Size : –

Media : Mixed media

connection between this artwork and my practice: 

Zorio is an Italian artist associated with Arte Povera movement, which was contemporary with the Gutai group in Japan.

He is known for his use of materials and I am interested in this artwork because he places the clay next to other materials, the Diameter of terracotta is based on the artist’s arm-span and the circle was moulded as he moved around at floor level. Which relates to my interest of relationship between body movement and the form.

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Sculpture as Place

Carl Andre - Sculpture as Place
Carl Andre – Sculpture as Place

Artist : Carl Andre

Year : 1958–2010

Size : 

Media : Installation

connection between this artwork and my practice:

Carl Andre uses the same sculpture forms such as cubes in different versions of installation. Repetition of simple geometric form in large scale and they way they interact the them creates ascetic pleasure. His semi-industrial, physical structures took all my attention to this artwork.

his minimal artwork and connection of each sculpture form with the space and repetition of the objects are what connects my projects to his work.

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Ambo

Artist: Alicja Kwade
Year: 2018
Size: —
Medium: Wood, Stone, Steel

connection between this artwork and my practice: 

Alicja Kwade is one the artist who specifically works on the laws of physics and the mysterious natures of time, space and light.

The connection I found between my projects and her works is that she presents improbable scenarios using doubled or multiple objects and I am using double or multiple objects to study relationship between forms and space. And also some of my ideas is similar to her minimal design and how she uses lines and objects to create a space.