Sculptures

Defacement of the sculpture: "Fuck me!"

Sometimes people are frightened by sculptures because they take away space but do so not like human beings but as a kind of force very difficult to identify with and therefore most often taken to be a threat rather than a challenge. Michel Foucault put it in relation to the art of creating space without occupying it oneself. If someone creates a sculpture, then this is a demand to make this irreplaceable space invisible and something else visible. It is a special dialogue between the art of creating something and taking up space. Such a spatial dimension has been understood by Henry Moore.

Another important reference is Michelangelo. His sculptures are exceptional due to him knowing the stone to be used is more complete than anything he could create out of that stone. Michelangelo coined the important insight that anything an artist manages to achieve is both in- and uncomplete. That means art sets on a special kind of regression or on a diminished perspective to ever attain completeness or what Hegel would claim as being the truth, namely 'the whole'. If this cannot be attained, then some kind of desparation drives the artist to ever greater wishes for completeness. It is a futile fight against the kind of image the roboter can create when imitating the flying figure through the sky. Whatever the impression, the perception of completeness is more a transgression to other spheres of the imagination. The question is how do people deal with it when they are constantly confronted by strange figures - sculptures. It might explain why that inscription was perhaps written on that one piece of sculpture:'fuck me'. It is both a provocation and an answer as to what sort of provocation the sculpture itself poses in a public space.

The coloured house

In an open space close to a kind of amphitheatre to make possible open air performances.

Rest assured

the time consumes itself

a matter of marble

becomes a piece

of testimony

where memories

have gone

away the pain

free the wish

alone the man

with the skilled hand

to reshape the stone

or marble till

something becomes

a kind of rekindled object

stirring both

the imagination

and curiosity

what is to say

along that lake.

hf 6.1.2015

Cross references:

Art where it seemingly shouldn't be

Just outside of Rhyolite, Nevada, a spectacular ghost town off the road leading to Death Valley, California, a group of prominent Belgian artists, led by the late Albert Szukalski, created a self-described art situation consisting of seven outdoor sculptures that are colossal not only in their scale, but in their placement within the vast upper Mojave desert.

http://goldwellmuseum.org/?gclid=CNzAx_aggMMCFU6WtAodG3QA8w

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