TECTONICS 2019
150cm x 50cm x20cm stone and rubber
Tectonics in architecture is defined as “the science or art of construction, both in relation to use and artistic design.” It refers not just to the “activity of making the materially requisite construction that answers certain needs, but rather to the activity that raises this construction to an art form.” It is concerned with the modeling of material to bring the material into presence: from the physical into the meta-physical world.
The genesis of a sculpture is determined by its material.
Any material that can be shaped in three dimensions can be used sculpturally. The most common of these are stone, wood, metal, clay, ivory, and plaster.
The idea was to think about the role of the material in an art piece. Usually the sculpture use different materials as a media to creat an art work of his/her ideas, feelings. In this creative process the artist is spahing the “raw” material (stone, clay) to get the statue.
In the work flow the target was to concentrate the nature of the “raw “ unlaboured materials. To express in a personal sculptural language through the interections of different characteristics of materials (as the rigidity of the stone, the elasticity of the rubber, the flexibility of the wood plate etc.) On the elaboration of the compositions, a leading idea was to concentrate on the simlicity of the materials, which establish the emotional foundation of the sculpture, give a basic accent and determine the limits of the aesthetical action.
The compositions gaining visual expressiveness through the interaction between the natural physical laws (gravity, friction, press) of the materials and the building principles (equilibrium, stability, resistance). The predetermined form of the material is speculated as a modular and structural condition of the sculptural construction. (stone, rubber, metal) The materials are chosen for the purpose of building. In bringing the physical into the meta-physical, tectonics begins to talk of a poetic of construction.
