Dec 30/05
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Tara Donovan creates her work from large amounts of everyday materials. Paper plates, drinking straws and plastic cups become organic forms through repetetive addition and transformation.
In her Untitled she uses Styrofoam Cups and hot glue to produce forms blobby enough to make the most avid Computer Graphics fan envious. Haze sees drinking straws (2 million of them) stacked up against the wall, a subtle topology created through offsetting the straws. The resulting work have a poetic fragility, and must be amazing to see up close.
From a press release for the Ace Gallery:
Donovan is known for her commitment to process, unusual material choices, ability to transform familiar objects or substances into challenging new forms, and sensitivity to architecture. Using large quantities of readily available consumables such as paper plates, pencils, straight pins, Scotch Tape, fishing line, or adding machine paper, she exploits their flexibility to make highly tactile works with a strong element of surprise.
References to Minimalism and architecture are inevitable. For more images, see the Ace Gallery.
Bastelstunde
Circa hunderttausend Styropor-Trinkbecher, einige Kilo Heißkleber, mehr benötigt sie nicht für den Großteil ihrer Objekte. Tara Donovan aus New York greift sich Alltagsmaterialien, schnibbelt, schneidet, stapelt einige Stunden Tage Jahre – und erscha…