Wednesday, 18 February, 7 pm
Oderberger 56
This Werktalk will be in English
opera II
(or "Where is the time I have left in this space?")
(or "Where is the time I have left in this space?")
ice, wood, cords
variable measures
die raum
2015
Over recent
years my artistic path has predominantly followed sculptural research. The
researches focus on time and concomitant duration as decisive agents,
elaborating and extending my ideas across a wide variety of materials. I
experiment with both organic and/or industrially rendered materials, these
include such materials as plastic, iron, glass, copper, steel, cotton, plants,
and rubber among others. Similarly, the active-positive and entropic role of
water plays a significant part in my art practice. The works render imminent
(and, perhaps immanent) the action of time as it forms a mnemonic record on
matter in space.
As is evident from the enclosed photographs of my work, there is a strong sense and presence of a visual poetic language that marks and metaphorically records the interactions between internal organic fluid forms. The incorporation of chance and the speculative is evoked by experiencing the abstract outcome that results from these direct experiments with the different materials. Nonetheless, as is obvious, no artistic activity is completely free from the artist’s subjective intentions, and this remains the case regardless of the purely physical and material conditions whence my experiments begin. The assembling and related combining of materials intimate a series of suggestions that creates new properties as possibilities, while in an aesthetic sense I hope also creating poetic alchemical alloys of the mind. The experimental side is reflected upon and enlarged through physical and scientific properties of poetic analogy, such as balance, density, materiality and capillarity. My works in which the characteristics are physical and not virtual, neither directly symbolic or representational, but which just literally 'exist', remain nonetheless highly subjective and emotional assemblages.
My aim is to
continue the project, extend its development, while at the same time perfect
some of the aesthetic and visual questions that arise from my experimental
works. In short to move ahead in the sense of working with space in its
continuity and extension anxiety, but simultaneously always making use of the
various material confrontations that emerge. Within this aesthetic frame the
paradox of disruption and temporal suspension play their part, evoke a sense of
moveable perception, while also confronting contemporary mankind's feelings as
to the uncertain, unstable and fickle situation in which we live.
Carla
Guagliardi
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