#8 2016
Opening Friday 19 February
Saturday 20 February to Sunday 6 March
Artist talk with Margaret Roberts Sunday 6 March, 1-2pm
Artist talk with Margaret Roberts Sunday 6 March, 1-2pm
black, white and grey-painted steel, 50cm x 50cm x 50cm, Muzeum Sztuki, Lódz, Poland.
Image source: http://www.wikiart.org
#8 is the latest of
Margaret Roberts' reconstructions of Katarzyna
Kobro's Spatial Composition
2 of 1928, made as an enlarged
wall drawing. Her seven earlier reconstructions made in 2015 are shown here. She is remaking
this work partly because Katarzyna was one of the early constructivist artists
who, well before the consequences of the devaluation of place became so
apparent in climate change, worked towards its revaluation by giving place an
important role in their work. Katarzyna explained her approach to space in 1929
as:
Sculpture is a part of the space in which it is located. [...] Sculpture
enters space and space enters the sculpture. The spatiality of its
construction, the connection between sculpture and space, force sculpture to
reveal the sincere truth of its existence. That is why there should be no
random shapes in sculpture. There should be only those shapes that position it
towards space by connecting with it.
The 8th reconstruction of Spatial Composition 2 will
be made in ash on the existing wall of ArticulateUpstairs. The
ash is in part a memorial for the recent loss of the World Heritage-listed
ancient Gondwana ecosystem in Tasmania. Much of this area was burned to ash
following unusually dry weather and electrical storms in January 2016, each of
which scientists attribute to climate change, as you can read here.
Room sheet link.
Room sheet link.
