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Abstract Modern Stainless Steel Contemporary Sculpture > click image to enlarge
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Stainless Steel Sculpture "Split Plane" 1981-82 a
This “Split Plane” Sculpture like much of the Contemporary Sculpture I have done is cut and reconfigured from one single plate of stainless steel with no material wasted. Its a simple concept to the the Contemporary Modern Artist but potent in its affiliation with the Minimal Art Movement pushed a step outward into space as Abstract Sculpture. As a Abstract Contemporary Artist I have chosen a Minimal Format and turned it Abstract by splitting a Minimal Forms with a vocabulary of shapes prevalent and intrinsic to to my Modern Abstract Sculpture. As a Stainless Steel Sculpture it is well suited as as a Outdoor Sculpture. As far as Metal Sculpture goes Stainless Steel is the most Modern Metal Sculpture material in my opinion due to its bright reflective surface unlike Bronze which usually is steeped in history with its somber patina’s. This Modern Abstract Sculpture while only 18 inches wide can be classified as a Abstract Monumental Sculpture. It can easily be transferred into any scale and hold up well visually since it appears to be monumental at this scale of around 12 inches high. One can easily imagine walking around and through its portals at this scale making it Monumental at any size. My Modern Sculpture which I often refer to as Minimal Abstract Sculpture uses a formal vocabulary developed over the years and seems to have infinite possibilities. As a Modern Sculptor my Formal Vocabulary as a Modern Artist creates a language of my own and as the possibilities of new configurations increases along with the development of this Vocabulary even more possibilities and avenues to move in open up. These were some of the first Stainless Steel Sculptures I did and were cut on a metal ban saw. In 1980 small piece like this were impossible to cut with a computerized Plasma Cutter using oxygen and acetylene to do the cutting and would have be to expensive and would have burn away to much material to be practical. In recent years Water Jet Cutting has been developed which cuts a finer line but one that is not square to the plate. Today we have Laser Cutting which leaves a cut the width of a Pencil Line, perfect for small jobs like this. Since this Modern Sculpture was built in 1981 Laser Cutting had been developed and cutting these works on a Ban Saw was hard work requiring lots of grinding afterwards to smooth out the uneven and choppy lines the Ban Saw produces on such a hard material as Stainless Steel. Today Technology has come a long way since the1980’s making the job of Modern Contemporary Sculptor much faster and easier. From the 6 views above you can easily see how a few cuts in the Modern Sculptors hand can create many variations of configurations making many of the views hard to tell they come from the same the same Abstract Modern Sculpture. This is a quality almost which is exciting for the Modern Artist, and almost a magical result and sign of a great sculpture. When the incisions of a Abstract Modern Sculpture can produce so many configurations that balance out in a complete 360 degrees it one of the greatest pleasures for a Modern Sculptor in the creative process. |