DO HO SUH

2011年12月3日星期六

Fallen star 2011

From: http://stuartcollection.ucsd.edu/artists/suh.shtml
The Stuart Collection has embarked on a new and extraordinary project with the artist, Do Ho Suh, an important artist who we will be proud to include in our distinguished collection. Since graduating from Seoul National University, the Rhode Island School of Design and Yale University, he has developed a remarkable body of work across the globe while living in both Seoul and New York City. He recently had two major related works on exhibit at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Do Ho Suh’s work explores the notions of home and displacement, the cultural meaning of space and the relationship between the personal and the collective. This is particularly relevant in the context of increasing globalization (with frequent dislocation of refugees and others) and considering California’s highly mobile population.

For the Stuart Collection, Suh has proposed Fallen Star, a small house that has been picked up by some mysterious force, (perhaps a tornado) and “landed” on a building, seven stories up. A roof garden is part of Suh’s design and will be a place with panoramic views for small groups to gather. This can be seen as a “home” for the vast numbers of students who have left their homes to come to this huge institution, the university, which has nothing even resembling a home. It is an unforgettable image and will be a truly amazing experience sure to stay in the minds and memory of students and visitors for years to come. Do Ho is very excited about this singular opportunity.

Suh’s proposal was deemed the finest, most adventurous and most original of all the proposals that our esteemed Advisory Board reviewed when they last met. The UCSD administration has given its blessing and approval. We want to complete this project by the end of 2011 as a part of the celebrations for the 50th anniversary of the university. The student body has grown to over 29,000 undergraduates: the Stuart Collection has expanded with the campus where there are up to 52,000 people on any given day.

Suh’s Fallen Star will be the next and 18th work in the Stuart Collection. It will be appreciated by generations of students, faculty, staff and the many visitors to the university. It will also be a noteworthy artwork for the communities of San Diego, Southern California and beyond as it attracts national and international attention.

Sculpture

Sculpture is three-dimensional artwork created by shaping or combining hard materials—typically stone such as marble—or metal, glass, or wood. Softer ("plastic") materials can also be used, such as clay, textiles, plastics, polymers and softer metals. The term has been extended to works including sound, text and light.

Materials may be worked by removal such as carving; or they may be assembled such as by welding, hardened such as by firing, ormolded or cast. Surface decoration such as paint may be applied. Sculpture has been described as one of the plastic arts because it can involve the use of materials that can be moulded or modulated. Found objects may be presented as sculptures.

Sculpture is an important form of public art. A collection of sculpture in a garden setting may be referred to as a sculpture garden.

The materials used in sculpture are diverse, changing throughout history. Sculptors have generally sought to produce works of art that are as permanent as possible, working in durable and frequently expensive materials such as bronze and stone: marble, limestone, porphyry, and granite. More rarely, precious materials such as gold, silver, jade, and ivory were used for chryselephantine works. More common and less expensive materials were used for sculpture for wider consumption, including glass, hardwoods (such as oak, box/boxwood, and lime/linden); terracotta and otherceramics, and cast metals such as pewter and zinc (spelter).

Sculptures are often painted, but commonly lose their paint to time, or restorers. Many different painting techniques have been used in making sculpture, including tempera, [oil painting], gilding, house paint, aerosol, enamel and sandblasting.

Many sculptors seek new ways and materials to make art. One of Pablo Picasso's most famous sculptures included bicycle parts. Alexander Calderand other modernists made spectacular use of painted steel. Since the 1960s, acrylics and other plastics have been used as well. Andy Goldsworthymakes his unusually ephemeral sculptures from almost entirely natural materials in natural settings. Some sculpture, such as ice sculpture, sand sculpture, and gas sculpture, is deliberately short-lived. A vast array of sculptors including Joan Miró, Marcel Duchamp, Yves Klein, John Chamberlain, Jean Tinguely, Richard Stankiewicz, Larry Bell, Carl Andre, Louise Bourgeois and others used glass, stained glass, automobile parts, tools, machine parts, and hardware to fashion their works.

Sculptors often build small preliminary works called maquettes of ephemeral materials such as plaster of Paris, wax, clay, or plasticine, as Alfred Gilbert did for 'Eros' at Piccadilly Circus, London. In Retroarchaeology, these materials are generally the end product.

Sculptors sometimes use found objects.

From-wikipedia