Thursday, April 21, 2011

On her article "Sculpture in the Expanded Field", Rosalind Krauss discusses how in the fifties, sculpture was referred to as something limited: it was to exist only in the space between “not-landscape” and “not-architecture.” This negative idea was conceived by taking only the image of sculpture as a single item and not as part of a conjunction to the environment in which it exists.


As a response to this closed minded idea, Rosalind explains her new structure for thinking and talking about sculpture, where actions exists in between the notions of landscape, architecture, non-landscape and non- architecture, creating new categories.


In today's world, we can find all kinds of functional objects, buildings and landscapes that have been molded into art pieces, that look like sculptures. In actuality art’s boundaries, in its relation with other concepts, is almost non-existent.




We can create new ways of expressing sculpture, where art is always present. We could position sculpture as a result of mixing architecture, landscape and objects. Whether we design buildings that are sculpted into the landscape, design objects to work in conjunction with the landscape or create inhabitable objects, in all of these cases, we are creating types of sculpture.


-Nadia Nunez

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