Organised chaos
“Each work is triggered by her response to a particular site or personal situations. Takahashi takes the entire space into account. She develops an internal logic which she uses to order and compose objects within this designated space.”
“She is highly selective when hunting for materials for her work. Objects are chosen for their intended functions, others are chosen to help highlight and animate different aspects and ideas within the work. The resulting installations are like complex three dimensional collages, where the gallery serves as both the artist's studio and a viewing space.”
‘Learning How to Drive’
‘Sea Dirge’
SUBODH GUPTA
U.F.O 2007 is another work made up of hundreds of brass water utensils that are soldered together to resemble a flying saucer. This gleaming sculpture is amusing yet pertinent to ideas of sustainability, poverty and notions of otherness. The repetition of forms and the exaggeration of scale is a common element in Gupta’s work.
‘Line of Control’- nuclear bomb created from kitchen utensils
uses pots and pans, reflective of Indian heritage, and speaks about mass production ‘reflect on the economic transformation of his homeland’.
‘Gupta's strategy of appropriating everyday objects and turning them into artworks that dissolve their former meaning and function’
JOHN WYNNE
‘untitled’, Saatchi gallery 2009
installation made fom 300 speakers, a pianola. A vacuum cleaner, audio amplifiers, hard disc recorder. Speaker wire. Suction hose
‘It uses sound and sculptural assemblage to explore and define architectural space and to investigate the borders between sound and music’
pipes moved up and down- breathing and echoed something living within the installation, similar to idea of parasitical wires alive within dead office space.
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster:
‘TH.2058’ (turbine hall, 2008)
‘Wry take on apocalypse’
‘biblical deluge’
super sized scultpures, swollen with rain, metal bunks strewn with ‘disaster literature’ and end of the world clips
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