Object Workshop

Thomas Hirschhorn

‘Best known for his sculptural constructions produced from disposable mass manufactured goods…Hirschhorn uses everyday and found materials such as plastic sheeting, cardboard, aluminium, packing tape and magazine images to create a dystopian reality.’ (Stephen Friedman)

Drift Topography 2003 Thomas Hirschhorn born 1957 Presented by Tate Members 2004 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/work/T11885

I think the way Hirschhorn uses found materials to produce his sculptures creates a really interesting accessibility within his work. The fact that he uses cardboard, aluminium and other everyday objects I think allows the viewer to relate more and to imagine how it may have been made. The fact that the making process is also visible in some work further emphasises the relationship between the viewer and the art.

sources :

https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/thomas-hirschhorn-6254

http://www.contemporaryartdaily.com/2013/05/thomas-hirschhorn-at-alfonso-artiaco/thomas-hirschhorn-galleria-alfonso-artiaco-042013-7/

https://www.stephenfriedman.com/artists/thomas-hirschhorn/

Zimoun

‘Zimoun combines ordinary objects (including cardboard boxes, plastic bags, and old furniture) with mechanical components (such as dc-motors, wires, microphones, speakers, and ventilators) to create extraordinary hybrid sculptures that fuse the normative order of generative systems with the disorder of random events.‘ (Anna Albritton for Sculpture Magazine)

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I think that ZImoun’s sculptures are really interesting, the way he combines physical sculpture with sonic sculptures evokes an interesting question about what is sculpture and what qualifies as sculpture, eg is sound sculpture? By combining sound with carboard boxes I think that Zimoun creates sonic sculpture which, alongside the 3D element of his work, is really compelling.

sources :

https://www.zimoun.net/

https://www.sculpture.org/documents/scmag13/apr_13/fullfeature.shtml

John Gibbons

I think the way Gibbons creates sculpture out of metal is really interesting. He uses stainless steel and copper to create pieces of work that seem delicate yet robust at the same time – the thin, detailed works still have a sense of weight to them due to his use of metal which I think is compelling. Gibbons said of his work ‘the inside for me…is the important part…how the inside and the outside interact with each other’. I think that this is clear from the work, in particular those pieces that have a lot of negative space where the negative and positive seem to react to each other.