11.2.11

Siepi come opere d'arte / Sculptural hedging and art

L'opera "Less Savauge than other" (Meno selvaggio di altri) rappresenta un'interpretazione sottile e molto ben concepita su quale ruolo rivesta oggi la scultura post-modernista in ambito pubblico. La scultura, creata dall'artista Rosemarie Trockel, si trova lungo le sponde lago Aasee, in Germania: due blocchi vegetali di 7x 3,5x4,5 metri di altezza, ricavati da esemplari di tasso gia' presenti nell'area, si trovano l'uno adiacente all'altro, quasi come se fossero plinti monolitici; tra questi, una stretta apertura lascia intravedere il campo di papaveri in fiore poco lontano. La scelta vegetale e' indubbiamente potente, ricca di storia: il tasso e' infatti un classico nella storia dei giardini. Tuttava, l'opera della Trockel non necessita nessuna di queste riflessioni. E' la forma stessa ad attirarci, estremamente familiare nella declinazione ma tuttavia capace di mettere in discussione i nostri stessi preconcetti: dove ci aspettiamo l'inerzia della pietra, troviamo una cinetica quasi faunistica; dove leggiamo strutture architettoniche mascoline, troviamo invece un naturalismo de-genere.
Rosemarie Trockel has placed her sculpture created from yew bushes nearby the work of Donald Judd on the Aasee banks with accurate vehemence. She carefully joins nature to nature, thus setting two blocks of the evergreen tree on the meadow.Estratto da un articolo di ABRAHAM ORDEN.






"Less Sauvage than Others is an installation by Rosemarie Trockel: a subtle and extremely well conceived take on such post-modernist public sculpture in the present tense comes from Rosemarie Trockel, who has installed on the shores of Lake Aa two yew bushes sculpted into adjoining monolithic plinths, each about 15 feet high and with only a small space between, not far from a beautiful field of blooming poppies. I usually don’t give preference to materials that need a back-story, but there is something powerful about the yew. An old standby in English gardens, the yew can live to be over 1,000 years old. It is extremely poisonous, yet modern medicine extracts a drug for cancer from it. Trockel’s work, however, depends on none of this; its form alone compels. Although it is overtly familiar, it continually undoes our preconceptions. Where we expect stony inertia, there are faunal kinetics; where we read masculine architectonics, there is de-gendered naturalism, and so on." Extract from an article by ABRAHAM ORDEN

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2 commenti:

  1. Dear GR, Yew is the most marvellous plant to sculpt in this 'monumental' kind of way. The sculpture has such drama and the small gap enables the visitor to glimpse a view of the landscape beyond. Inspirational!

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  2. Dear Edith, thanks for your comments: they are always enthusiastic and passionate! I must agree with you: yew has got such great sculptural qualities probably shared only with box, though the texture of the first one is able to add a a sort of spiritual, almost religious atmosphere.
    I had a look to your blog and I love it!

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