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I is... (iii), 2012
Marble resin
160 x 144 x 78 cm
Unique

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2013, Once upon a bicycle, not so long ago, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, NL

I is (iii) is a marble sculpture representing a den / simple shelter made by the artist's 3 year old daughter using a full size Rietveld Cargo chair and smaller Rietveld Crate chair designed for children. In an article for De Groene Amsterdammer Rudi Fuchs accurately notes: (...) Artists retain observations within the framework of their style, which is linked with a particular time. In his daughter's tent Ryan Gander discerned, for instance, angular forms concealed beneath a loose sheet—saw them in such a way that the loose rectangular quality became a motif in his view. To his generation of artists, the minimalist Sol LeWitt was a steady beacon—just as Cézanne was a saint to the Cubists. At the same time, Sol is of course a millstone as well. What Gander then saw, in that childlike construction made by his daughter (and given a title in infant speech) were starkly Cubist forms, like those of LeWitt, that had now been thrown off balance for once. A child's unwitting fun with chairs and a sheet showed that there is, in fact, another side to that organized straightforwardness. This is immediately revealed by his sculpture. Of course he was already aware of that other side before. But if they want to avoid coming across as overly dogmatic, artists will find a narrative motif with which and around which they can express themselves visually. Source: Rudi Fuchs, Groene Amsterdammer, 25 april 2013.
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