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Monika Sosnowska - Tower. Catalogue of the Exhibition at Hauser & Wirth New York, 2014

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Monika Sosnowska's (*1972 in Ryki, Poland) monumental work, Tower (2014), was inspired by designs of the iconic modernist architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. The artist begins with a steel section and twists it out of shape to create a sort of reclining figure, a lyrical sculptural object that usurps perfect structural engineering. Tower was fabricated in Michalow Reginow and bended and welded in Wieliszew, Poland, in 2014. It consists of ninety-six windows, thirty-four I-profiles, three hundred and eighty-four handles, and three hundred and eighty-four hinges. The project required about 1.5 kilometers of welding, and the sculpture weighs thirteen tons in total. Tower was subsequently disassembled into forty-nine elements, and shipped to New York, where it was reassembled and unveiled in the gallery space of Hauser & Wirth. This publication follows the sculptor's process from the initial idea through intermediate steps of fabrication.
 
Exhibition: Hauser & Wirth New York 5.9.-25.10.2014

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Im Schaffen von Monika Sosnowska (*1972 in Polen) klingen die Formensprache der konstruktivistischen Avantgarde, Tendenzen der Minimal Art und Konzeptkunst sowie das Erbe der modernen Architektur an. Tower (2014), ihr jüngstes Werk, geht auf Gestaltungsprinzipien Ludwig Mies van der Rohes und ein Hauptwerk des Internationalen Stils zurück, die Lake Shore Drive Apartments in Chicago. Mächtige Stahlprofile und Fensterelemente wurden nach Vorgaben der Künstlerin zusammengeschweißt, gebogen und in Spiralen ineinandergeschoben. So entstand ein gewaltiges skulpturales Objekt voller Poesie, das eine strukturell perfekte Konstruktion verweigert. Die Publikation dokumentiert ausführlich den Entstehungsprozess – von der ersten Idee über die Fabrikation in Polen bis zur Präsentation des monumentalen, 13 Tonnen wiegenden Werkes in New York.
 
Ausstellung: Hauser & Wirth New York 5.9.–25.10.2014

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Authors Juliusz Sokolowski, Monika Sosnowska, Andrzej Turowski
Assisted by Genieve Hanson (Photographs), Gustav Hoiland (Photographs), Juliusz Sokolowski (Photographs)
Publisher Hatje Cantz Verlag
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 01.02.2015
 
EAN 9783775739269
ISBN 978-3-7757-3926-9
No. of pages 156
Dimensions 240 mm x 300 mm x 17 mm
Weight 989 g
Illustrations 91 Abb.
Series Zeitgenössische Kunst
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Art
Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Plastic arts

Skulptur, Künste, Bildende Kunst allgemein, Bildhauerei, Plastik, sculpture, Monika, Sosnowska

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