From:
Andrei Stefanescu <AStefanescu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:
Fri, 3 Sep 1999 10:23:16 -0400
Subject:
touching sculpture (WAS Informazioni)
Hi, Kiki,
you're touching some fundamentals and you set me
thinking, so I'd like to share this:
Quoted text begins.But I
think that is much more important to see a lot of
sculpture and above all to touch them( very difficult in
museums, but very important according to me)
End of quote.
I totally agree with you! There's people who are somehow
inhibited to touch things, but when they do, they are
usually struck by the richness of the experience. I
always check where I am in a sculpture by looking away
and using both hands to feel the volumes. To me touching
marble is erotic.
Quoted text begins.at the beginning I think it's better
try moulding clay or plasticine to understand, with
fingers not only with eyes, forms and volumes.
End of quote.
There's the additive sculpture (modelling) and the
subtractive sculpture (carving). To me these are very
different approaches, although certainly not mutually
exclusive. Rodin, Brancusi, Michelangelo all worked in
clay as well. Think of a raised spot you want to create:
with clay you add bit by bit, with stone you remove
around it until it stands out. It is a different seeing
and visualising, is it not? As a kid I was constantly
chipping away at some sticks with an old pen-knife...
making faces and noses. One can carve even a potato...
I think one needs to find out what works best for
oneself. Ideally one will feel at home in both worlds.
Quoted text begins.To avoid
health problems, it's better work in the most human way:
chisel and hammer, no pneumatic one.
End of quote.
I can only say that working with both pneumatic and
manual tools puts a strain on your joints (I have an
unpleasant epychondritis a.k.a. tennis arm which just
doesn't get better from carving... I wonder why??).
Apart from that, what's human? we drive instead of
walking, we telephone instead of shouting, etc. etc.
But I thinlk I know what you mean: keep stone and body
in touch, and if that's what you mean, again, amen.
Quoted text begins.My problem is: who wants sculptures? Common people don't
buy sculptures, they buy souvenirs or useful objects. I
fear that sculpture is only a capital outlay for
few,that are in the hands of art managers and art
critics.
End of quote.
What approach do you use to sell your works? I'd be very
interested in your experience on this. Where can see
what you do? Perhaps you send me some .jpg pictures
(to: astefanescu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx).
By the way whereabouts in Italy are you? I live in the
Munich area.
Andrei
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