Unknown Man, Diane Maclean, 1988/2013 : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Unknown Man, Diane Maclean, 1988/2013 / Spitalfields_E1
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| 説明 | At Spitalfields, the medieval Charnel House held the bones of many who had died from disease, violence, hunger, accidental or natural causes, for whose remains there was no longer space in the cemetery, no marker or name. Death was faceless. Today the media confronts us daily with images of the dead; their multiplicity renders them also faceless.One day in 1985 Diane Maclean was shocked at seeing a newspaper photograph of a soldier blown up in Armagh, on the counter of her local newsagent. Her response was a series of dead figures, initially using steel sheet from crashed cars. The welds were tidy and the surfaces remained quite smooth. She subsequently turned to aluminium, trying to use it in a similar way, welding small pieces together to make a larger form. Destroying the aluminium in the process unexpectedly brought the result she had sought. Somehow, the cruel treatment she had meted out to the aluminium, buckling and melting it in her struggle, gave pathos to the figure and a kind of reality. Maclean initially envisaged encasing Unknown Man in an open container. Much better for the sculpture to lie inside the Charnel House itself, where it seems to belong.Maclean thinks of herself as both sculptor and an environmental artist. She generally works on a large scale in close co-operation with engineers. The materials she uses have great importance in her work. She allows industrial materials to respond to nature and natural phenomena, through the use of reflection, movement driven by wind, colour created by light, and recorded natural sound. After an early career as a portrait artist when the human form was the subject of her work, Maclean’s three dimensional oeuvre evolved from large-scale sculptures of parts of the body to interpretations of wind, water and landscape. Living abroad, mostly in Africa, for 15 years and working regularly in North America meant many flights across land and sea, seeing the world from the air, enabling Maclean to find shapes that reoccur. Sculptural ideas originate from the natural world, or, if for a public art commission, also from the history and nature of a specific place. www.dianemaclean.co.uk |
| 撮影日 | 2013-10-22 10:28:46 |
| 撮影者 | Spitalfields_E1 , London, United Kingdom |
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| 撮影地 | London, England, United Kingdom 地図 |