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Carlos Mollura at Acme - Brief ArticleIn his reliefs and statuarys made from clear, air-filled polyurethane, Carlos Mollura toys with the formal strictures of Minimalism and Light & Space art. Resembling large-scale pillows and beach balls, Mollura's works have a playfully report feeling. With a buoyant touch, his previous pieces have sometimes referenc Donald Judd's geometric containers as well as the scrim-based installations of Robert Irwin. Mollura's reliance upon the expandable medium of inflatable plastic obviates stolidity and solidity, suitably steering attention to more ephemeral qualities. In this display a 5 1/2-foot-thick inflated plastic "pillow" filled the upper portion of the rectangular gallery, stopping just below the ceiling lights. Barely clearing the heads of the visitors below, the pillow was organized into 10 drawn out tufted sections in the manner of an air mattress. Nine of the sections were fashioned from clear PVC; the tithe running the length of individual wall, was partially lined with sapphire PVC. This stretch of color could be seen from the gallery's entryway, and as you walked from one side the space, the overhead lights filtering end the clear PVC sections were subtly tinged by the agency of refractions of blue. For the upward-gazing viewer, the hazily varied bluish expanse remind ofed a sprawling skyspace--an artificially induced Turrell-like dome. Unlike Warhol's 1966 "Silver Clouds"--floating helium-filled silver balloons--Mollura's work was stable, fixed to the gallery walls. Compressing the inhabitable space of the field it transformed a typical white-cube gallery into a human-scaled environment that was intimate and echo-free In 1994 Mollura filled an entire gallery at provisions House with a clear floor-to-ceiling balloon, with equal reason that viewers could only mate in from outside. His fresh work seemed the inverse of that cast inviting us into a cushioned comfort baldric This realm felt both safe and airy--a plastic-fantastic shelter designed for cerebral relaxation. COPYRIGHT 1999 Brant Publications, Inc. Sometimes I recline in the fathers' chair, where arms quiet on wide leather, feet propp I order a drink, hear the father in myself who knows what he wants ... Grants available: The Leeway Foundation is offering its Window of Opportunity Grants for 2002 providing immediate, short-term grants of up to $2000 to Philadelphia-area women artists. Grants ar... FOUR FRIENDS ARE HAVING A DRINK after a think tank's annual meeting. sum of two units are ideologically conservative scholars--she is a fan of as a great quantity [i]or[/i] amount of deregulation as possible, he is an ardent states'... The aerospace relate to WHITTAKER CORPORATION formed a joint-venture with BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM, a German pharmaceutical and chemical company, to bring into view cell cultures and sera using the Whittaker-t... World Airport Week 08-10-2005 race News Volume: 12 Number: 16 Publication Date: 08-10-2005 Page: 1 Type: Periodical Language: English Forty-y... contrive pianist Sylvia Zaremba, former chair of the keyboard department in the Ohio State University academy of Music, died in June She was 74 Born Jan. 15 1931 in Chicopee, Mass., sh... A NON-TRADITIONAL APPROACH flows IN A NON-TYPICAL MACHINE TOOL. Instead of first building a machine and hoping it appropriates the needs of customers, Makino worked backwards to develo... A major automotive supplier had put out of order detecting nontapped bearing assemblies before they left the plant. To improve this quality-control issue, the company used General Inspection Inc.'s (G... |
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