Bosco Sodi : clay cubes /
It starts with a simple idea of massive cubes of clay, half a meter high. The sculptures of Mexican artist Bosco Sodi, cubes of fired clay stacked in high columns, ought to have exploded while being fired due to the extreme heat released in the material by sand, earth and water. The richly illustrat...
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| Language: | English |
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Berlin :
Hatje Cantz,
[2017]
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| Summary: | It starts with a simple idea of massive cubes of clay, half a meter high. The sculptures of Mexican artist Bosco Sodi, cubes of fired clay stacked in high columns, ought to have exploded while being fired due to the extreme heat released in the material by sand, earth and water. The richly illustrated publication on Sodi's 'Clay Cubes' explores the course of his experiment. He worked for several months creating the cubes, from compounding the material through layering and forming to drying and firing them in a kiln built especially for this purpose. Piled up to columns in the exhibition, they resemble the proportions of the human body and at the same time create an architecture reduced to the essential. Each cube bears the traces of the work process, following Sodi's typical approach, the process of trying out and arriving as a result whose appearance he may influence, but not foresee. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 x 30 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9783775742771 3775742778 |