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Showcasing the work of up and coming sculptors whose work deals with materiality.
The traditions of sculpture are being lost. Artists whose work requires technical skill is often not showcased enough. Condemned to the unfairly degraded term of ‘craft’ it becomes lost into a world of ‘found object’ art.
I am not saying that this work is not equally worth merit. But I feel that we need to move on from this Duchampian way, taking with us traditions from the past. For Duchamp’s ‘readymades’ are nearly a century old now.
We should be cherishing the technical skill of art alongside the conceptual. A good piece of art should have a good balance of both. I personally feel that there is great skill in creating a perfect replica of something, such as photorealistic drawing or carving, but in these works the conceptual dialogue is not present. I want to promote artists whose work is in-between the two.
A skilful idea and technique behind it.
This is happening in the art world, with artists like Anish Kapoor creating highly executed technically engineered work. Artists are making works which deal with materiality or equally immateriality. In order to highlight what sculpture is fundamentally. Like Richard Serra did, making steel have a sense of weightlessness and like James Turrell does, turning light into something almost tangible.
This blog showcases the work of up and coming sculptors who feel the same. The work of young sculptors who are casting; carving, welding, constructing and forming ideas out of bare materials. They are moving on from using existing objects and making objects themselves, be it abstract or realistic. They are pushing the properties of a material in interesting and new ways.
