It starts with a simple idea: massive cubes of clay, half a meter high. The sculptures of Mexican artist Bosco Sodi (*1970 in Mexico City), cubes of fired clay stacked in high columns, ought to have exploded while being fired due to the extreme heat released in the material: 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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Working with nature: clay and chance
Working with nature: clay and chance

Product details

ISBN
9783775742771
Published
2017-02-17
Publisher
Hatje Cantz; Hatje Cantz
Weight
1280 gr
Height
290 mm
Width
290 mm
Age
G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Number of pages
148