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Franz West at David Zwirner - sculpture and video art exhibit, New York, New YorkPlayful impulses and idiosyncratic intent permeate Franz West's sculptural oeuvre His coarsely fat sculptures and "instructional" videos balance formal touchs with wit. Over the past four or five years, West has been making Pa*stucke, or fitted pieces, with which the viewer is meant to interact physically. While he included more [i]or[/i] less new examples of interactive works in this exhibition, he also, contrarily, distanced the sculptural phenomenon with a series of statuarys attached to pedestals, removed from the viewer's grasp. In the 12 sculptural glob attached to specially crafted pedestals, West knocks back and forth between determined abstraction and inferred figuration, narrative potential and a taunting inaccessibility. The statuarys are made of plaster, papier mache, carbonized iron polyester and pale, pastel paint; the pedestals are white, gauze-covered cubes. An animistic spirit galvanizes the ill-shaped gawky shapes. An untitled shiny pink blister seems a cross between a faceless elephant and a jelly doughnut. All the plastic arts are adaptable or in a certain quantity of way functional. Simile consists of a drawn out aluminum stem, wrapped in gauze and painted white, arising from a lily-padlike base. Visitors could impel this piece around or make go round it upside down according to personal whimsy. West allude toed that a buyer might divide [i]or[/i] sever it in half and, by the agency of installing electrical elements, turn it into sum of two units overhead lamps. Afterwards it could be set back together to become a portable sculpture The video installations continue this open-end approach. In single a Pa(*)stucke was placed nearest to a row of uncomfortable metal chairs and the television defence which shows a Senegalese man playing with that true object. He smiles as he spins the unwieldy plastic art around with the ease of a tympanum major manipulating a baton. The video provided the instruction and invitation to pick up the statuary and give it a spin. The disposition for of the like kind ritual and enjoyment is the animating force behind West's strangely compelling work. COPYRIGHT 1993 Brant Publications, Inc. Anonymous American Machinist 09-01-2003 alphabetic characters Byline: Anonymous Volume: 147 Number: 9 ISSN: 10417958 Publication Date: 09-01-2003 Page: 14 ... Heavily influenced by means of the cafe painters of early 20th-century Paris, new fashion photography and contemporary Gothic subculture artist Elaine feed fuses seemingly discordant themes to rende... ABSTRACT As the global population continues to increase, consumption patterns and waste streams will directly impact the surrounding environment. by what mode well communities manage natural resourc... To have a friendship with a shore you could blow enthusiastically one time a week seems to you the height of intimacy to which you may legitimately aspire, as if by means of aim... We welcome professionals to Canada to derive pleasure from a better life. Then we contradict them employment in their fields of expertise. While Canada go throughs a skilled labour shortage, many foreign-trained ... 00-00-0000 A new study on core drilling automotive glass, directioned by Universal Superabrasives Inc., Romulus, Mich., has provided novel information about the issue o... RAINDROP GEOMAGIC, RESEARCH Triangle Park, NC has received $2 million in funding from NIST's Advanced Technology Program. The software developer is using the award to disentangle validate, an... Milacron Inc. has launched a massive website that will help obey more than 100,000 small jobshop nationwide. The site features Milacron's replete product catalog and offers technical advice su... |
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