Silver Particle / Bronze (After Henry Moore).
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Title
Silver Particle / Bronze (After Henry Moore).
Is Part Of
Fine Art
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History
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Environmental & Geographical Science
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Description
"In Simon Starling’s work, inanimate objects are activated in various ways, especially when their political or economic history is revealed or when their materiality becomes an embodiment of something discovered during his research. His work enables and celebrates diverse interpretations of objects in many instances, as Greenblatt (1991) notes when referring to artistic and curatorial activity, deflecting attention away from the object onto the systems that gave rise to it in the first place. Starling conducts a close inspection of his objects, usually following a web of connections across the globe and across history, which in many of his works lead him back to the starting point; a vintage photograph of a Henry Moore sculpture leads to the production of a bronze sculpture based on the shape of a single enlarged silver particle that makes up the photograph and which, when converted into a sculpture, resembles the biomorphic shapes that served as inspiration for the Moore sculpture in the original vintage photograph ('Silver particle/bronze (after Henry Moore)', 2008). The machinations of its history somehow lost in the image when seen in the museum archive come back into play through the translations and reconstructions encountered in the detour and are materialised in the exhibition format" (Liebenberg 2021: 26 - 28).
Creator
Simon Starling
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Date Created
2008
Source
The Modern Institute, Glasgow
Resonances
object-study
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Simon Starling
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Stephen Greenblatt
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resonance
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Henry Moore
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photograph
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particle
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translation
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archive
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connection
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medicine chest
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attention
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discovery
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reconstructions
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history
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economy
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digression
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Glasgow
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Type
Artwork
