On Spatialization (study model)

On Spatialization (study model)
2017, plaster, epoxy resin, coal, river clay (unfired), process related floor protector, and various woods. 40 × 145 × 57 cm.

This is an elaboration of the work Spacebar (2014); a wooden beam, turned inside out by an apparent simple action. This time, however, the inversion runs along four diagonally crossing lines, with which a temporal element is introduced, causing the transition to develop more gradually now, from the inside to the outside; from back to front, and figuratively, from abstracta into concreta.
In addition, this work’s form, content and context is aimed with more emphasis towards the point of ‘spatialization’, by which I mean a universal plane where being becomes present and perceptible.

But I also wanted to look back through that point, to see how the visible — as sheer creation — comes about. And above all, to find out in which manner such fundamental processes actualize and take place. Do they arise into the positive from a certain negative; as it were, from mould to casting? These, and more implications are figured out herein.
Consisting of three segments, this sculpture is respectively executed in clay, an amalgam of epoxy resin with coal, and four plaster castings thereof. As a whole it functions as study model, a starting point and a preliminary exercise for the bronze sculpture On Spatialization.

View from another angle, during Van Hieruit (2019) at PARK, Tilburg.

Selection of process related sketches and prints.

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