23.1.09

PROCESS: nature / reverse nature, gravity

Claes Oldenburg, 1971
"Gravity is my favorite form creator"

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The day gravity reversed itselfAnti-gravity
Gitta Gschwendtner, Consume
woodcrete stools (mixture of concrete & wood fibres)
cast from moulds based on upside down paper shopping bags

Rachel Whiteread, Stacks, 1999
With plaster, she casts the 'negative space' around ordinary objects,
inverting full and empty spaces
Rachel Whiteread, Torso, 1991
Robert Morris, Anti from, 1968
"In some case, some investigations move from the making of things to the making of the material itself. Sometimes, a direct manipulation of a given material without the use of any tool is made. In these cases, considerations of gravity become as important as those of space. The focus on matter and gravity as means results in forms that were not projected in advance [...]"

Gaetano Pesce, Golgotha Chair, 1972
resin impregnated, fiberglass reinforced textiles
Pesce performed the "contrary to nature"
Tom Dixon working on Fresh Fat Easy chair, 2002
Marcel Wanders, Knotted Chair, 1996
material composite, aramide yarn-reinforced and resin-soaked rope
with traditional macramé technique
Viktor & Rolf with architect Siebe Tettero, Upside down boutique in Milan, 2005

Antonio Gaudi, Hanging model to conceive La Sagrada Familia
Daniel Czapiewski, Upside down house, Szymbark, Poland - BBC's reportage

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