Space practising tool number four is one of five space practising tools the artist made to explore the object nature of space in the book Space Practising Tools.
Edition: 300
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 128; xii, 116
Dimensions: 240h x 170w mm
Weight: 562 g
Publication date: 26 Mar 2021
Publisher: Pigment Publisher
Place: Melbourne
Language: English
ISBN: 9780646835303
Specifications
Space Practising Tool Number Four is made of nine space blocks in three groups. Each group includes three block: an open block on either side of a closed block in the middle. The middle block is without light. It’s existence is, however, deduced by observing the two open blocks and the common housing.
The work comprises nine components with an overall measurement of three groups of blocks that are 32 cm high by 32 cm wide with a depth of 8 cm for the end blocks and varying depths of 8 cm, 16 cm and 24 cm for the middle blocks. Carpentry by Gail Hastings.
| 21/03/2021 | Space Practising Tools Launch, Craft Victoria (cur. NGV Art Book Fair), Melbourne |
Bibliography
Hastings Gail,
‘Space Practising Tool Number Four’,
Space Practising Tools,
Pigment Publisher,
Melbourne
2021,
pp.70-89.
Hastings Gail,
‘Preface’,
Space Practising Tools,
Pigment Publisher,
Melbourne
2021,
p.xi.
Excerpt
Were the people of antiquity so in fright of space as conjectured by art historian Alois Riegl that they sought safety in its exclusion by embracing material objects? […] Did so-called Minimal art’s reintroduction of ‘real’ space in the 1960s reignite deeply buried anxieties? This artist’s book wittily instantiates the formalist principles it methodically elucidates. It is meticulously complete down to every detail, and the artist’s personal creative style is satisfyingly sustained across 116 pages. […] While being an integral aesthetic object, the book successfully calls in the conceptual references points that had informed Hasting’s practice as an artist. The artist that works with space and light turns back towards the conditions of experience themselves, towards the matrix of human being, but on the side of space and light, siding with things and the condition of their apparition rather than their experience.
Jolly Martyn, Nelson Robert,
‘Artist-led Publication: Essay/ Catalogue / Book’,
AAANZ Arts Writing and Publishing Awards 2022 ,
Art Association of Australia and New Zealand,
website
2022.
Excerpt
Roffe Jon,
‘A New Stereoscope’,
Space Practising Tools,
Pigment Publisher,
Melbourne
2021,
pp.1–3.
Excerpt
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