Roman Signer (Contemporary Artists Series) PHAIDON 9780714844459 is

Roman Signer is an artist like no other. Although he identifies himself as a sculptor, he is best known for actions in which simple materials (rockets, balloons, rushing water) react with natural forces to yield surprisingly lyrical results. Part mad scientist, part sorcerer’s apprentice, part Buster Keaton, Signer often appears in these actions, sometimes at considerable risk to himself. The real star of his works, however, is time. In works such as Sandbag with Timed Detonator (1988), an auto-destructive device featuring a plastic alarm clock that realeases a heavy sandbag hanging above it, two periods of tranquil rest are bridged by an instant of sudden violence. In others the change is more gradual, as in Action with a Fuse (1989), a twenty kilometre, thirty-five day ‘time sculpture’ in which two hundred lengths of fuse burned a path to Signer’s current hometown from the village of his youth.

Магазин: Podpisnie

ISBN: 9780714844459
Язык: Английский
Объем: 160
Формат: Мягкий,250x290
Издательство: PHAIDON
Год: 2006
Количество страниц: 160
Переплет: Мягкий
Count: 1
Год публикации: 2006