Tuesday, March 4, 2014
Richard Deacon
He uses manufacturing and building techniques rather than traditional sculpturing methods. Therefore, he is able to use woods, steel and ceramics to produce slick curled, spiraled, shaped objects. Over the past decade, he has developed a vocabulary of shapes and this notion.
I am really gravitated toward his large-scale sculptures. Besides his exceptional craftsmanship, his works are consistently dynamic, forceful, aesthetically beautiful, and the best of all, they are playful -- resembling rubix cubes (puzzles) or maze. Deacon quotes: “The curve has a life of its own, it is not describing or depicting a shape.”
Spatial relationships between sculpture and its surroundings are also equally important to the artist.
Here is one of his works:
Restless, 2005
Steamed ash and stainless steel
158 x 374 x 257 cm
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