Roman signer
“I like to go into nature and try something out, that cannot be called work, it’s a pleasure.” Roman Signer has said.
I’ve been researching on Roman signer recent days, in order to dig into the relationship between daily life and my artist role.
At the very beginning, I was looking into the playfulness appearance of his work and trying to find-out the joyful moments from the procedures of my art as well as Signer, meanwhile, by
noticing some of his artworks achieved a sense of humorous, unexpected, and aesthetically compelling results.
Realised later, there is a slight difference between his and the others. how daily goods that are massively used but presented so poetically and simply.
Objects such as car，tire， wind，water，etc. He uses the simple elements to explores the relationships between sudden energy releases and calm, between order and chaos, and the existence of form in the apparently formless.
Inspired by that，i can find my elements as well. Physical forces like wind energy, ready-to-use products like clocks, foil paper, hair, measurement tape, fan and even memories so on.
Signer’s artistic explorations of the world had the huge impact on me, and its phenomena change audiences perception constantly, Overview from his work, classical sculptural materials have been usurped by sand, water and ordinary objects. In terms of Well planning and incalculable chance interact, generating ‘poetic’ visual installations, the highly developed individual aesthetic is truly worthy to learn.
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Joseph Beuys
There is one thing about Beuys that are amazed me：he elected a Green Party candidate for the European parliament。
I have learned Joseph Beuys since I was in BA college，At the beginning, I was confused by his work, because of the lack of understanding. The hare, the wolf, oaks tree and those odd performances such as “I like America and America likes me”
But I have been introduced the concept of: “Social sculpture”, it’s a popular concept among sculptors in China.
Beuys political explorations had the huge impact on me。especially Late in life, Beuys founded many political organizations - especially following his 1972 dismissal from his professorship - such as the Free International University for Creativity and Interdisciplinary Research (1974), and the German Green Party (1980). Beuys's art itself also gradually became more political, all the while continuing to be informed by his concept of "Social Sculpture," according to which the implicit message of any of his labours was that society itself was to be understood as the real "artwork." This all-inclusive and contentious ideal is perhaps best reflected in the artist's 7000 Oaks (1982-87), a work of land art, urbanization and environmentalism all in one.
Overview， i gradually getting to know the component of his art came from the civilian life。it is admirable that an artist could become the social activist ，shaman.
From the reaserching of his late life ，I‘d rather recognized him a social activist，debater，fighter，due to the braveness from him，I can clearly see how many options could choose rather than just doing art.
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せきね のぶお（NOBUO SEKINE）
Nobuo Sekine, the first artist who knocked on my sculpture exploration door
As he was one of the key members of Mono-ha art, I explored his works at the library pretty much. From the diagrams, I can sense me being an Asian as well as him. Because of the How we usually play with the nature combining body philosophy, how we can present the mathematical traces of behaviour through art-making.
For example stone, paper, wood, wire, rope, and water, arranging them in mostly unaltered, ephemeral states. And then there is an encounter between natural and industrial materials, works which come under the Mono-ha style focus as much on the interdependency of the aforementioned elements and the surrounding space as on the materials themselves.
Two iconic projects that I’ve been tasting since the first day I started at the sculpture
First, and also the initial work of the Mono-ha movement, ‘Phase Mother Earth’.
The major turning point in Sekine’s career came in October 1968, when he created the work Phase: Mother Earth in Kobe’s Suma Rikyu Park for the First Open-Air Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition (第一回野外彫刻展). the work consisted of a hole dug into the ground, 2.7 meters deep and 2.2 meters in diameter, with the excavated earth compacted into a cylinder of exactly the same dimensions.
He conceived the work as a “thought experiment” that would deal with the laws of awareness of phases of space—a form of “reasoned thought that deduces whether or not one’s hypotheses are true, and in some cases, can ignore the physical phenomena of reality.” He further elaborated... "If you dig a hole in the earth and keep digging forever, eventually the earth will be like an eggshell, and if you go on to pull out all the earth, it will be reversed into a negative version of itself. "[1]
From the following works, after，i found he obliterates the impurities besides the ultimate meaning even further.
In July 1970, He contributed Phase of Nothingness (空相), by which means he engagement with the concept of “phase” (位相) in topology (位相幾何学,拓扑学), a branch of mathematics concerned with abstract space and connectedness—specifically the properties that are preserved under continuous deformations.
In which case I traced the discipline from Sekine’s works, the form, the matter, and space as infinitely malleable. To clarify the boundaries between philosophy, mathematics, and art seems too much Because there are high ideals and lofty place that needs someone to achieve.