Alighiero e Boetti

A famous example of his Arte Povera work is Lampada annuale (Yearly Lamp, 1966), a single, outsized light bulb in a mirror-lined wooden box, which randomly switches itself on for eleven seconds each year. This work, which is on display at the Tate modern, focuses both on the transformative powers of energy, and on the possibilities and limitations of chance – the likelihood of a viewer being present at the moment of illumination is remote.

http://yalebooks.wordpress.com/2012/03/05/mapping-alighiero-boettis-career-new-book-and-tate-exhibition-celebrates-the-italian-conceptual-artist/

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Kris Martin
This cycle of death and rebirth, or departure and arrival, is also evident in Mandi III (2003). A black flipboard of the kind usually found in airports and train stations, is programmed to click and flip over randomly, but as it bears neither numbers nor letters it gives no information, no indication of where to go. It has been relieved of its original purpose; this defamiliarization offers the opportunity to reflect on the absence of fixed boundaries, on beginnings and ends of temporality.

Welcome

Hello all,

Welcome to the blog for Advanced Sculpture, Fall 2012, at UF. Here you can post links, images, texts, etc. of artists or artworks, respond to readings and discussions, and comment on each other's work. It will be important for you to upload images of your work (finished and in-progress) to the blog so that we can follow along. Looking forward to the rest of the semester.

Sergio