DwindlerRear tiltdown
Often evoking bodily gestures, junctures, or fragments, Baghramian's abstract sculptures and installations engage with architecture, contextualizing and shaping space. In addition to site specificity, the innovative and subversive deployment of heterogeneous materials are hallmarks of Baghramian's work. DwindlerRear tiltdown 1 belongs to a series of sculptures that feature fragmented floor to ceiling glass pipes, held together by zinc bands and a chemical sealant. These forms invoke utilitarian ducts, but their openness, transparency, and implicitly fragile glass panels bound with manually applied putty-like adhesive demonstrate that they are the result of aesthetic play. Patinated with smoky residues suggestive of the ethereal substances that course through conventional pipes, these stacked conduits encircle voids and assume an ethereal appearance themselves.
Artwork Details
- Title: DwindlerRear tiltdown
- Artist: Nairy Baghramian (German (born Iran), Isfahan, 1971)
- Date: 2018
- Medium: Glass, zinc coated metal, colored epoxy resin
- Dimensions: 69 × 19 × 19 in. (175.3 × 48.3 × 48.3 cm)
- Classification: Sculpture
- Credit Line: Purchase, Hortense and William A. Mohr Sculpture Purchase Fund and Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 2023
- Object Number: 2023.474
- Rights and Reproduction: © Nairy Baghramian 2018
- Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art
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