Specifications: Tractatus, five Design Cast plaster sculptures, 20 x 35' overall.
Description: Exhibition at David Winton bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI, summer 1999
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Specifications: Tractatus, five Design Cast plaster sculptures, 20 x 35' overall. Description: Exhibition at David Winton bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI, summer 1999 |
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idea for Tractatus developed over a period of almost ten years, as the artist
moved from her early practice, fluctuating between minimalist forms and
conceptual aims, to social engagement. Tractatus underlines a two-fold conflict,
between the cool look of Minimalism and the need to enclose it within a
warmer, sensual appeal, and between the functionalism of modernist architecture
in the vein of Mies Van der Rohe and the urge to enrich it with corporeal
presence. Here we recognize the influence of Joseph Beuys and his belief
that art must be simultaneously private and public, striving at once for
aesthetic beauty and ethical function, as well as Wittgenstein's claim that
ethics and aesthetics should be one and not separate categories.
Vesela Sretenovic Curator, David Winton Bell Gallery Brown University, 1999 |