Opening of the exhibition Joshua Rauscher, White Cube Giant Double Tetris (bases misleading # 2), Thursday, February 17, 2011 at 17:30 Plot to HR .
In a state saving, we change the statues but it retains the bases.
Claude Roy
Joshua Rauscher presents the work performed during his residency in November and December 2010 PLOT HR. In space naked, two clusters of bases, one hand and the other nine, accompanied by a video projection showing the stacking of several attempts made in the premises of the ERBA. A second small slideshow scrolls, for the record, images of sculptures unbolted the occasion of brutal political change.
Note original intent (November 2010)
Currently in residence in PLOT RH (Regional School of Fine Arts, Rouen), I work the following project: group then duplicate all bases used in various art classes for the ERBA Rouen.
The origin of this project is essentially intuitive and follows the seduction exercised systematically on me these stacks of simple volumes, human scale, each time I crossed one.
At first glance, the project and the intention may seem a bit cheesy (even my own eyes the result of duplicate bases and declare sculptures nothing very extraordinary!). However, many of my interests usual are present: the notion of involuntary sculpture, crafts and manufacturing, modularity and combinatorial, the relationship sculpture / architecture, furniture and more furniture exhibition, duplication (copy, replica, facsimile) The organization of space, the game ...
like this I guess the part that should result from this work: two large clusters of bases identical. One showing marks of time, traces of wear. The other, placed near the first, but like new, like copy and paste each element but also all. The internal organization of the original (the stacking mode or spreading) can result in different combinations as copying repeated, identical or mirror.
Specifically, I counted twenty-one bases that I would conveniently duplicated twice: one copy is necessary to quietly steal the originals belonging to the school of art (via exchange the sly), a second pair to the original.
I counted that would require 95 m2 wood panels, 4 pounds of glue, staples and a few hundred 15 to 20 working days.
Joshua Rauscher
Joshua Rauscher lives and works in Avignon. He teaches at the Art School of Aix-en-Provence. More information: www.josuerauscher.net
Exhibition of 17 February to 12 March 2011
Thursday through Saturday, from 14h to 18h
PLOT HR
shopping mall Grand'Mare
4 bis rue François Couperin
76000 Rouen
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