I wanted to mention Mario Merz and Lousie Bourgeois because I believe they have created some ineresting sculptures that relate to my work.
Louise Bourgeois has created a large spidery sculpture called 'maman'. It is both sinister and fragile. The abdomen appears to be made from wound strands creating maternal birth imagery. Bourgeois' work is often evocative of her emotional childhood and this spider is certainly a nightmarish vision. I appreciate the skill that has been used to make such a massive object stand so tenderly on its thin legs.
Mario Merz has made contrasting structures. He has produced two igloos and has decided to play around with transparency. Merz takes an anti-consumerist stance with his material choice; sandbags, stone, branches and newspapers. Merz is also interested natural groth patterns and the mathematics behind them (e.g the Fibonacci sequence).
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