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Indepth Arts News: "Almuth Tebbenhoff: Pillar" 2004-10-13 until 2004-11-07 Cafe Gallery Project London, , UK United Kingdom
ARTIST'S STATEMENT:
"Imagine a stack of perfect industrial steel angle section: 6m lengths,
sharp, hard edged, strong and waiting.
Enter the artist (Almuth Tebbenhoff) who cuts all of it into small
pieces ˆ each with a different angle and different length, so that when
it is reassembled and welded together, the previously straight lines
wave and dance in all directions, like a fully 3 dimensional drawing. Or
like a climbing plant sending out tendrils to look for support,
systematically searching for that solid branch or wall.
Why? It reflects something the artist sees all around. Nothing in nature
is completely straight: it only appears so. Pillar‚ and other related
sculptures grapple with the fine line between control and chaos. The
pieces in this series of work have just enough control imposed on them
to achieve their direction, such as a column or a circle, but also
sufficient uncertainty to add excitement and freedom. Pillar‚ is an
upward moving energy column, reaching for the sky; it could continue in
this way forever, but, because material reality is finite, the physical column ends at 4 meters. However, the invisible core continues as far up as the mind can stretch."
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