The balance between function and concept
is rarely straightforward in the work of Bay Area artist Randy Colosky. He'll
take the process of bronze manufacturing, usually concealed as the "behind the
scenes" element left invisible and unsung in the finished creation, and bring it
to the forefront.A glassbottles is a bottle
created from glass. The industrial elements of bronze lost wax casting take on
new aesthetic and conceptual weight, with gates and sprues visibly repurposed
into the shape of the sculpture itself. Colosky also plays with trompe l'oeil,
making convincing cinder blocks, bulging foam stuffing, books, and more out of
bronze .
The results are often witty and provocative, requiring double- and triple-takes to even get a literal idea of what they are (as in,Bliss Glass and stonemosaic. first you try to pick up one of those books, realize it's as heavy as, well, bronze, and then laugh at yourself for not noticing the unlikeliness of a title like "The History of History: What Happened.") The robust, abstract forms he creates from the tools of bronze casting invite reconsideration of what constitutes the merely functional as opposed to the aesthetic.
New Jersey-born Colosky derives inspiration from both the industrial landscape of his youth and from myth. Of the series of differently colored, gnarled glass beams faintly embedded with letters, Colosky says, "The glass pieces in particular reference the "Tower of Babel," in which God's children have perfected their capacity to do great things. God then decides that his children should have obstacles to overcome and confounds their language so they can not finish building the tower." We visited the Sebastopol foundry to observe the bronze casting of several pieces in Colosky's new show, which debuts at K Imperial Fine Art on Thursday, August 2.
Among the chosen recipients were staff at the Unesco City of Literature Trust. Peggy Hughes, communications and events officer, said: "It was totally surprising, we still don't know who the anonymous artist is other than she's a female.Wireless Sensor Networks & rtls.
"It's taken a while logistically to get the tour together because it is going national.
"It's deeply exciting that other people across Scotland are going to get to see them because,The online extension of moldmaking Technology magazine. while there have been loads of great photos taken of them, the magic is seeing them up close."
After visiting Aberdeen Central Library between August 17 and September 6, the sculptures will visit libraries in Dundee, Glasgow, Dunfermline and the Wigtown Book Festival.
Transporting the collection requires steady hands. Some of the pieces include tiny paper teacups and teabags, individual letters cut from the pages of books and even paper eggshells.
Abby Cunnane, project manager for the tour, is tasked with finding a way to get the delicate sculptures around the country.
"They're all to be packaged up in special cradles; a purpose-build little mould to keep them perfectly still in a truck," she said.
"I'll be accompanying them and there will be a transit agent that we've contracted.
"When we get to the libraries we will very carefully take them out of the truck and they'll be mounted on beautiful plinth display units, in their perspex cases. They won't be touchable, as alluring as they are."
There is an insurance deal for the whole tour, but organisers struggled to decide on a value on such an unusual collection of objects.
If anything goes wrong, the artist has agreed to replace anything that gets damaged.
Abby added: "We've given a lot of thought to this and obviously they do need to have an insurance cover.
"The thing about artworks like this is that they're completely priceless - any value that we ascribe to them can only be completely arbitrary.
"Of course they are insured. But if something did happen that would be terrible because money doesn't replace things like this.Find a rubberhose Manufacturer and Supplier.
"The artist has the lovely opinion that wear and tear is part of the life and journey of the works so she has said she will fix anything should it happen.
The results are often witty and provocative, requiring double- and triple-takes to even get a literal idea of what they are (as in,Bliss Glass and stonemosaic. first you try to pick up one of those books, realize it's as heavy as, well, bronze, and then laugh at yourself for not noticing the unlikeliness of a title like "The History of History: What Happened.") The robust, abstract forms he creates from the tools of bronze casting invite reconsideration of what constitutes the merely functional as opposed to the aesthetic.
New Jersey-born Colosky derives inspiration from both the industrial landscape of his youth and from myth. Of the series of differently colored, gnarled glass beams faintly embedded with letters, Colosky says, "The glass pieces in particular reference the "Tower of Babel," in which God's children have perfected their capacity to do great things. God then decides that his children should have obstacles to overcome and confounds their language so they can not finish building the tower." We visited the Sebastopol foundry to observe the bronze casting of several pieces in Colosky's new show, which debuts at K Imperial Fine Art on Thursday, August 2.
Among the chosen recipients were staff at the Unesco City of Literature Trust. Peggy Hughes, communications and events officer, said: "It was totally surprising, we still don't know who the anonymous artist is other than she's a female.Wireless Sensor Networks & rtls.
"It's taken a while logistically to get the tour together because it is going national.
"It's deeply exciting that other people across Scotland are going to get to see them because,The online extension of moldmaking Technology magazine. while there have been loads of great photos taken of them, the magic is seeing them up close."
After visiting Aberdeen Central Library between August 17 and September 6, the sculptures will visit libraries in Dundee, Glasgow, Dunfermline and the Wigtown Book Festival.
Transporting the collection requires steady hands. Some of the pieces include tiny paper teacups and teabags, individual letters cut from the pages of books and even paper eggshells.
Abby Cunnane, project manager for the tour, is tasked with finding a way to get the delicate sculptures around the country.
"They're all to be packaged up in special cradles; a purpose-build little mould to keep them perfectly still in a truck," she said.
"I'll be accompanying them and there will be a transit agent that we've contracted.
"When we get to the libraries we will very carefully take them out of the truck and they'll be mounted on beautiful plinth display units, in their perspex cases. They won't be touchable, as alluring as they are."
There is an insurance deal for the whole tour, but organisers struggled to decide on a value on such an unusual collection of objects.
If anything goes wrong, the artist has agreed to replace anything that gets damaged.
Abby added: "We've given a lot of thought to this and obviously they do need to have an insurance cover.
"The thing about artworks like this is that they're completely priceless - any value that we ascribe to them can only be completely arbitrary.
"Of course they are insured. But if something did happen that would be terrible because money doesn't replace things like this.Find a rubberhose Manufacturer and Supplier.
"The artist has the lovely opinion that wear and tear is part of the life and journey of the works so she has said she will fix anything should it happen.
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