Daniel Libeskind

 
Military History Museum, Dresden

Simon Martin

” ‘At what point does form become an idea?’ it asks. ‘What associations haunt materials? What is the thing-ness of a thing?’ ”

– Dan Fox, Here’s Looking At You, Frieze Issue 113, March 2008

 

 Simon Martin, Untitled (After Donald Judd) 2011

 

Tadao Ando

Storytellers’ (Kamigata rakugo) Association Hall in Osaka, Japan designed by Todao Ando

In removing triangular sections of the building’s simple geometric shape Ando reveals the depth of the concrete used as well as creating striking recesses, which vividly highlight the contrast between light and dark.

Dimensions

Put together 6 structures while in the workshop at home, varying in size and shape. 

 

Hany Armanious

 

Armanious’ work encourages the viewer to reconsider the way we define and understand art objects. In merging the boundaries with his objects, they become both the art and the bases, complicating the relationship between sculpture and support.

Oscar Tuazon

‘Displaced Fractures’ At Migros Museum

 – http://www.contemporaryartdaily.com/2011/02/%E2%80%9Cdisplaced-fractures%E2%80%9D-at-migros-museum/df-02/

‘Kodiac’ , 2008

 – http://www.slash.fr/en/evenements/dynasty

Oscar Tuazon’s My Mistake, on display at London’s ICA, 2010. Photograph: Steve White

-http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/jul/28/artist-week-oscar-tuazon

Tuazon’s work crosses between the realms of sculpture and architecture. Working with building materials such as concrete, steel, and untreated wooden beams, Tuazon embraces the do-it-yourself approach to working, with the physicality of the structures bearing the traces of labour.

Tuazon’s sculptures create a tension with the spaces they inhabit, while testing the structural limits of the materials themselves. Tuazon’s use of industrial materials visually hints toward minimalism, but it is the physical side of sculpture that he is interested in, developing ideas while working with the materials.

Giles Round

Giles Round, ‘Strange days and nights of mystery and fear mixed with excitement and wonder strange days and nights strange months and years’, 2008, installation

Giles Round, Black Special (2004)

Giles Round’s geometric structures and assemblages explores the fusion between material and shape.

“These planar shapes and modular units make up improvised stage sets, upon which are hung or placed secondary elements…”

Round’s work merges art and architecture, with these structures and assemblages becoming display mechanisms for other elements of the work. This relates directly the the structures I am making, as well as being geometric sculptures, they could be used to display other elements of work.

http://www.ica.org.uk/?lid=16918&imgid=1749

IPS – Patrick Staff

Gareth Jones

Gareth Jones commission for Cubitt, London, Installation view, 2003,

A series of nine structures based on the shape and dimensions of the gallery plinth, taking on varying formats. The customisation of the structures, paired with the ‘matter-of-fact’ titles, reference different approaches to art production.

Plinth Sketches

Moving on from the idea of layering and removing paint, I looked at removing sections of the structures.

In removing sections, the raw material would be revealed, contrasting against the smooth finish of the structure.

There is also the opportunity of removing slivers of the structures, to result in the objects sitting at an angle, allowing the audience to question the quality and finish of the objects.