Tag: tilt

‘Shower’, Richard Wentworth, 1984 | Tate

“Richard Wentworth’s sculpture typically takes mundane objects and transforms their role and identity. He gives everyday items like chairs, tables and buckets a double role, to disrupt their conventional significance. Shower demonstrates Wentworth’s affection for the commonplace, combining a 1950s table and a model ship’s propeller. The propeller is fixed to the table, as if to a boat, like childhood games in which items of furniture become imaginary vehicles. The plate suggests that the table is anchored to the floor. The title refers to a memory of seeing tilted tables outside a café during a heavy shower in Spain.”

—Gallery label, May 2007

Source: tate.org.uk

Ernesto Neto, Polyp, 1990

According to Miguel A. López, author of the text—included in the exhibition catalog—Lo Mejor Está por Venir… (The Best is Yet to Come…): “The sculptures by Neto are explicit invitations to burst into the experiences of our bodies, to surrender to the sensorial pleasures and to become several times something different than ourselves. Undoubtedly, his pieces are just the initial detonator. Then is up to the viewer to give in the pure variations offered and to invent other ways of irremediably becoming that otherness all the time… The work by Ernesto Neto can be approached as a laboratory of mutating bodies and spaces. Beyond the smoothness, translucency, and the more relevant ludic and sensorial aspects of his sculptures, in a broader sense his work represents a continuous challenge to the standards of corporality.”