“Still Wool” 1998
Installation and wall sculptures, Linda Durham Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM.
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"Still Wool"
Avivi, whose sculpture has so far focused on a minimalist, reduced language, by suggesting line, shade and movement, now presents a solitary figure facing a fragile hand woven wall. The figure, composed of ready made parts and tightly-packed screws is a solid refined metallic mass.
SW1, 9-3/4' x 13', Steel Wool Weaving
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"Still Wool"
Detail of Still Wool,
SW2, Man of Steel, 67" x 21" x 9-3/4" Screws
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"Still Wool"
SW4, 5’10”, Steel Wool Weaving
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"Still Wool"
A steel wool human figure simply splayed on the wall.
SW5, 73" x 50" x 2", Steel Wool Weaving
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"Still Wool"
Steel wool, a familiar domestic material utilized and elevated to the level of minimal art, creates a paradox of sustainability and ideas of aesthetics.
SW6, 50" x 74-1/2" x 4", Steel Wool Weaving
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"Still Wool"
SW7, 51" x 51" x 4", Steel Wool Weaving
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"Still Wool"
SW8, 60" x 51" x 4" Steel Wool
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"Still Wool"
SW9, 70” x 49” x 2.5”, Steel Wool Weaving
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"Still Wool"
SW10, 25" x 15" x 2" Steel Wool
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Still Wool, 1998
Linda Durham Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM
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Still Wool
Avivi, whose sculpture has so far focused on a minimalist, reduced language, by suggesting line, shade and movement, now presents two figures facing a wall.
One figure, composed of ready made parts and tightly-packed screws, a solid refined metallic mass, radicalizes the paradox already identified in Danziger’s “Nimrod” sculpture. Avivi, as in “Nimrod”, stresses the feminine aspect in the torso of the masculine figure.
The second figure simply a mantle, woven from steel wool, a texture hinting at familiar domestic material, implying a feminine version of the same image, a container of sorts, grasping empty space.