Contemporary Issues in Sculpture

Tim Noble and Susan Webster's work

• October 24, 2016
• Stephen Cartwright
• Steve@Cartwright.com
• Associate Director of the School of Art and Design
• Associate Professor of Sculpture
• Sculpture-3 dimensional art object
• Sculpture artists like material items
• Sometimes the piece of art is hard to interpret
• or how it translates from a pile of junk to something much more complex
• Figure
• Sculpturists in ancient Greece would take gods from stories and put them into the real world
• Old art is sometimes modernized
• Same materials are used
• Same technique is used
• The modernization is that it is executed more intelligently
• Ultimately better
• Tim Noble and Susan Webster create figure from little aspects that can be changed to make a normal picture
• Antony Gormley thinks of the body in a geometric way 
• Space



Strings

• making things from a 2 dimensional plain act in the actual world
• Tomas Saraceno changes the perspective of sculpture
• Strings is actually multitude of black strings in a large white space
• Anish Kapoor- The Earth (1991) black spot is actually a hole in the ground when it really looks like black paint on the ground 
• Nina Katchadourian
• Directed cars to certain locations to be arranged by color
• Geometry



Gnaw

• Brancusi-Column of the Infinite
• Janine Antoni-Gnaw 1992:
• Consulted women's body issues
• Actually formed the shape by gnawing on the 
• Tara Donovan used friction and gravity to keep a mass of pens together in a cube shape
• Take objects and rearrange them to make a person think about them