Renowned American artist Tara Donovan (born 1969) creates sculptural objects of enigmatic beauty by utilizing and experimenting with simple, everyday objects such as Scotch tape, drinking straws, paper plates, needles, plastic rods, toothpicks, mylar and buttons. At first these abstract objects resemble enlarged cellular structures, or living organisms from the depths of the ocean. "What I'm striving for is to be an alchemist and transcend the material," Donovan says. "It's more of a mimicking of the way of nature, the way ...
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Renowned American artist Tara Donovan (born 1969) creates sculptural objects of enigmatic beauty by utilizing and experimenting with simple, everyday objects such as Scotch tape, drinking straws, paper plates, needles, plastic rods, toothpicks, mylar and buttons. At first these abstract objects resemble enlarged cellular structures, or living organisms from the depths of the ocean. "What I'm striving for is to be an alchemist and transcend the material," Donovan says. "It's more of a mimicking of the way of nature, the way things actually grow." Her method is also allied to an American Minimalist sculptural tradition that includes artists such as Sol LeWitt, Robert Irwin and James Turrell. This volume, with its handsome mirror-paper cover and debossing, presents eight works made between 2004 and 2012, as installed at the Arp Museum in Germany and the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark.
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Fine Condition. Book 28 pages. Slim, small format paperback exhibition catalogue. Texts in English. Faint shelfwear to the edges. Else, the binding is tight, the interior clean and free of markings. Bound in stiff illustrated paper covers and published on the occasion of the site-specific commissioned installation and exhibition held in Houston from November 6-December 14, 2003.
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VG. Tan and white Illustrated wraps, 28 pages, color and bw illustrations. Catalog of an exhibition held at the Rice University Art Gallery, Houston, Texas, Nov. 6-Dec. 14, 2003. Interview with the artist by Kimberly Davenport.
