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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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Cordes Sauvages Pow Wow

Sheila Hicks - Cordes Sauvages Pow Wow
Sheila Hicks – Cordes Sauvages Pow Wow

Artist : Sheila Hicks

Year : 2015

Size : 26 Elements 250 x 20 cm, 98 3/8 x 7 7/8 ins, each

Media : Installation Cotton, wool, linen, silk, bamboo, synthetic fibres

connection between this artwork and my practice:

Hicks’s material is her visual language to talk about her feelings. She uses traditional techniques in a minimal way to create a composition of colours, lines and textures in her work.

I first collected this art work only because I liked the form and relationship between the lines and colours, but now I am more interested on the forms of the lines individually and in the group also relationship of them to the space. She has a wonderful understanding of space and architecture how, she engages and activates  her work with space create unique composition.

In one of her interviews she mentioned that she works the same way that ceramists do.

The other aspect is feeling her body was involved, making process and also using traditional method and go against it are other connections.

This artwork and Eva Hesse’s “Right After” are the main inspiration for one of my projects.

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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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Red Slate Circle

Richard Long - Red Slate Circle
Richard Long – Red Slate Circle

Artist : Richard Long

Year : 1988

Size : 37 x 400 x 400 cm

Media : Slate

connection between this artwork and my practice:

Richard Long  is known as a “Land” artists. He uses natural elements like stone and wood to create meaningful conceptual art with simple abstract elements like circles and lines.

I found him after I had my art performance in which I painted a circle around myself on the floor with liquid clay. I understand that my works does not fit in “land art” genre but they way he uses simple forms to create minimal artwork is an interesting aspect for me.

the geometrical forms he creates, the logic of repetition, his minimal sculptures, use of material and the way he creates the space are the key ideas for me in 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.

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Heart of Darkness

Artist: Cornelia Parker

Year: 2004

Size: 323×3.96×3.23 cm

Medium: Charcoal from a Florida wildfire,

connection between this artwork and my practice: 

This installation was created with burnt wood from a forest fire. Parker’s work is about the relationship between object and action.

As in my work I am concentrating more on the form and the materiality of the artworks rather than the concept, my works do aligned well with  Parker’s concept. What I find related to my work is in the from of the objects and why she has suspended them. It is questioning how suspending the objects can affect our feelings. 

Also I like to have this specific work to question what would happen if this installation was presented in other forms.