Visual Arts, Columbia University, New York

This course examines ways of looking and ways of seeing, both personally & professionally as artists and in a larger cultural context. Through field trips to contemporary art and other cultural sites, conversations with visiting critical thinkers and practicioners, readings, discussions, and visual & written responses, we will examine how we look, think, act, create and respond--critically questioning our own artistic practices and ways of looking at the world.

Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Fissure (P3)



A fissure on a plaster sculpture.
This tiny part is the element that can reveal the inner structure of the work, but also the element that puts in second line the external part, the sculpture’s appearance.
Showing while hiding and vice versa.
Other than a sexual and organic touch, this split gives to the work an internal, not completely knowable, dimension.   To look at such fragment, strengthen the already existing qualities of the work and add some others. The shapes of the object, austere, fragile, silent, mid-way between rocks and architecture, are confronted to this welcoming and more human space.
Totality and fragment dialogue in the spectator’s experience of the work.

Maybe it is true that we can’t perceive totality, but just a sequence of components that we unify with thought. 
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