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Gisela Stiegler, untitled, columns in orange and violet, 2020
VOLUME VS. VOID
Marion Friedmann Gallery presents 4 artists working on the intersection of design and sculpture. For VOLUME VS VOID, we selected sculptural design works that play with the notion of volume, void and space.
PRESENTED ARTISTS:
GISELA STIEGLER
JORGE YÁZPIK
JULIO MARTÍNEZ BARNETCHE
THIERRY JEANNOT
Gisela Stiegler
Untitled, 2020
Carved and cast in artificial marble
65 x 120 cm
Edition of 5
Gisela Stiegler
Untitled, 2020
Carved and cast in artificial marble
65 x 70 cm
Edition of 5
Volume has the power to influence void in a physical, as well as in our emotional ‘self’-space. Volume enhances or alters the perception of space. Volume delivered through objects has the power to provide pleasure in a void. A void we might experience in challenging times.
As soon as such a surprising object as Gisela Stiegler’s ‘Columns’ engage with space, it completely changes. The pieces are lacquered in silver, white, blue, steal or bronze. This is when the pieces enter into conversation with the ‘other’. They become another kind and fake a long gone time as well as another material and weight, appearing like architecture or monoliths. Since 2020 Stiegler casts some of her sculptures in artificial marble.
Jorge Yázpik
Untitled, 2020
Set of three solid clay and gold leaf, carved
15 x 15 x 16,5 cm
Jorge Yázpik’s sculptures famously play with volume and negative space within the piece itself. As one of the most important contemporary artists of Mexico today, Yázpik carves his stone sculptures having the duality of volume and void in mind.
Jorge Yázpik
Untitled, 2020
Volcanic stone and silver carved
17,5 x 16,5 x 8 cm
Yázpik approaches stone and raw materials with a high respect to their natural qualities, opportunities and limitations. Often Jade and Obsidian for example are presented in an unpolished glory, displaying their crystal appeal through carefully placed cuts. Every discourse with the material happens - in Yázpik’s own words- by “clearing the path”, making space for the accidental element. He incorporates a strong architectural design language within his oevre.
Brains / Riñones, 2020
Light sculpture, direct carving in amber, from Simojovel, Chiapas, Mexico / brass and tlacapulin wood
11 x 8 x 5 cm (stone) | 40 x 22 x 42 cm (whole piece)
Detail of carved amber, held by the brass and wood arms
Julio Martínez Barnetche presents light-sculptures:
a technical brass and wood structure holds a beautifully carved quartz and amber piece and lets them dance in the air to create flickering shadows through the light source directed at it.
His sculptures are a discourse through shape, space and the volume intertwined with a sensitive beauty. They combine science and art. His works reflect a deep conversation with the stones and their scientific properties.
Pliegues, 2020
Light sculpture, direct carving in rutilated quartz, from the season mine in Belo Horizonte, Brazil / brass and tlacapulin wood
12 x 4 x 6 cm (stone) | 40 x 22 x 32 cm (whole piece)
Prosthesis Collection
Detail of the carved rutilated Quartz
The artist has accumulated a thorough expertise of the material he makes his own through the carving and design process. In the artist’s own words: “The aesthetic marriage of materials is forever a dance between tension and harmony, permanent and transient and soft and hard”.
Thierry Jeannot
Star Transmutation # 13, 2019
Light fixture, aluminium and clear plastic (PET)
65 x 87 cm, 12 bulbs
Thierry Jeannot
Star Transmutation # 14, 2019
Light fixture, aluminium and clear plastic (PET)
87 x 54 cm, 12 bulbs
Marion Friedmann Gallery