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Can you define play?
Experiment... Let me put it this way: I’ve been influenced/inspired by a multitude of artists and cultures. I build on this. I play!
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What was the inspiration for your recent series of sculptures? The multimedia ones...
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Historically most of my work is based on the human figure ... no surprise, since I’ve spent years working from the model. Over the last twenty years or so they were getting more stylized and more “abstract” due to influences like African art and Picasso. The problem was I felt I was stuck. My distortions and compositions needed a boost. Then I ran across Kandinsky.
Kandinsky the painter? Yes, the father of pure abstract painting. I was reading a book on his work and realized that Kandinsky had found that music could take his work to another level. I realized I could apply the same thinking to my sculpture; that is, creating sculpture based more on music than the figure. I got excited!
Sculptural music does sound exciting… Ha, a pun from the poet! Anyway, I created sixteen sculptures over two years that were definitely more contorted. Some like Joyful Noise reached a Kandinsky-like composition. Hermit, Head and Menace became kind of musical figures. Clarinet Guitar and Drum turned out to be a cubist still life, while others like Harmonium became a musical instrument. They all became sculptures that had something to do with music.
You mean they worked out? You were happy with them? Yes, they all worked and no, like a lot of artists, most of my finished work is never really finished. I always want to play around with them some more...
But you must stop sometime or you’d never finish anything! There’s a point when you are actually working on the piece when you either can’t think anymore or are just totally frustrated and you have to stop... or you just like it. It still doesn’t stop me from wanting to improve it at a later date!
What criteria do you use to decide if a piece is good, or shall I say acceptable?
Nothing set in stone, but as far as sculpture goes they must have presence. And hopefully they speak.
Larry Andreoff, Dance, 12 ft
How do you know they have presence? In what way do you mean speak? They are arresting; they make you curious... they make you look. Once they get you looking, they connect... they say something to you. That’s what art is all about... communication.
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