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- image from MIT Public Art website
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- Elegantka is an exact resin cast of a 2008 sculpture, also called Elegantka, made from stacked red cedar two-by-four beams that the artist laboriously carved with a circular saw.
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- Elegantka at deCordova
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- In the red cedar original, the sculpture appears to be expanding out precariously over its base; cast in resin, however, the piece stands as a unified object that appears to be solid and strong but also light and ephemeral.
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- The surface texture of the sculpture shifts from a gently carved base to a craggy and knotted midsection to gentle undulations that climb around the top of the volume.
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- The grid-like interlocking of beams gives an underlying visual structure to the curving surfaces, which themselves invite the touch with their rough, furrowed textures.
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- The sculpture is reminiscent of geological formations, ancient fortifications, or even a huddle of human figures, approachable yet mysterious.
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- ence pence at deCordova
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- DL photo March 6, 2017
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- It exists ambiguously yet forcefully between abstraction and representation with registers that often prompt nuanced, unsettled, and open response.
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- Von Rydingsvard’s work has a distinctive and energetic form yet a constitutively enigmatic, often unrevealed character.
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- Scientia at MIT
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- DL photo June 26, 2017
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- DL photo June 26, 2017
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- DL photo June 26, 2017
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- DL photo June 26, 2017
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- Ence pence, like most of von Rydingsvard’s sculpture, elicits multiple associations.
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- Ence pence, like most of von Rydingsvard’s sculpture, elicits multiple associations.
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- The surface texture of the sculpture shifts from a gently carved base to a craggy and knotted midsection to gentle undulations that climb around the top of the volume.
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- The surface texture of the sculpture shifts from a gently carved base to a craggy and knotted midsection to gentle undulations that climb around the top of the volume.
