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€ 2,900.00

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Walnut plywood sculpture. Numbered and signed sculpture, complete with art gallery CoA certificate: Plywood Sculpture | Proof No. T23-IN 44.1155 "DISCARDED PROOF + SHADOW 1944 - When MoMA was not very modern. 2024 - Homage to Bernice Alexandra (Ray) Kaiser. First imaginary tests to define the design of the sculpture later exhibited at MoMA - The Museum of Modern Art, New York - DESIGN FOR 15TH ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION "Art in Progress", 1944. (The numbering shown in the photos is only indicative). The work is professionally packed in a wooden crate and shipped with tracking and insurance for full value. Imaginary proofs: imperfect therefore discarded. A wooden sculpture created by artist Marco Pasqual in homage to Ray Kaiser, a tribute to the countless fragments discarded from an imaginary initial process of manually folding plywood. Anatomy of a creative process: how many attempts were made to realise this complex sculptural work? How many tests were made and then discarded before the final result was obtained for display at MoMA? In an imaginary reconstruction of the research work carried out by Ray in defining the design and fine-tuning the construction method, a visionary initial process of handcrafted construction was replicated, the result of which generated a series of 'Imperfect Works'. These 'Discarded Works' were imagined as important study elements, then all numbered and filed under the T-Test code. Total darkness is in the Shadow: the object loses its three-dimensionality and appears flat as if it were just a black spot drawn in the air. What seems to us to be the objectivity of the shadow, would be the objectivity of the laws concerning the mode and degree of illumination of objects, i.e. in the relational properties concerning how a given amount of photons behaves with a given surface. The scientific approach ultimately seems to deny the being of shadow. The material chosen to represent the darkness of the shadow in this work was made in a British research laboratory, originally developed on behalf of NASA and described by researchers as dark (almost) as the heart of a black hole. An incredibly dark material dubbed 'super-black' creates a special coating made of millions of carbon nanotubes juxtaposed to trap photons and capable of absorbing almost all light. Objects coated with this innovative material lose their three-dimensionality and appear flat as if they were just black spots drawn in the air, so much so that, according to its inventors, there is no spectrometer in the world powerful enough to analyse it.

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