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Sculpture, Plastic on Plastic
Size: 18.1 W x 18.1 H x 18.1 D in
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ABOUT THE ARTWORK
Mapping the sun is a process that humankind has engaged in over time in an attempt to comprehend the cosmos and thrive on the earth. It is at once a spiritual ritual as well as a practical compass for the prosperity and evolution of our existence. As a practitioner of architecture, I employed the seasonal variations of the solar path of the sun to strengthen my client’s understanding of sustainable building practices. In academia, my design pedagogy employs a more phenomenological perception of the sun to educate my students on ways to incorporate light and shadow in the design process. As an artist, the phenomena of light and shadow have proven to be an inexhaustible forum for inquiry that ignites my imagination and informs my process. My current artistic practice begins with the development of a ‘Shadow Map,’ a tracing of sun cast shadows of an architectural construct as it is built over one day, thus creating a record of its own making. Its composition is not form driven, but is a result of the collusion of space and time in an act of making. The significance of the original object exists only in its role as the precipitator of its trace. When complete, the dimensional object is dismantled leaving only a map of its former existence, the shadow of a day. the map is used to generated new 2D and 3D constructions. "if an object can cast a shadow, can a shadow cast an object."
DETAILS AND DIMENSIONS
Sculpture:
Plastic on Plastic
Original:
One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:
18.1 W x 18.1 H x 18.1 D in
Frame:
Not Framed
Ready to Hang:
Not applicable
Packaging:
Ships in a Crate
SHIPPING AND RETURNS
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Typically 5-7 business days for domestic shipments, 10-14 business days for international shipments.
Handling:
Ships in a wooden crate for additional protection of heavy or oversized artworks. Artists are responsible for packaging and adhering to Saatchi Art’s packaging guidelines.
Ships From:
United States.
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Anthony Viscardi
United States
ANTHONY VISCARDI Artist's Biography The work of his most recent exhibition at Lehigh University Art Gallery in Fall of 2013 and his current exhibit at FXFOWLE Architects Office Gallery in NYC was begun during Anthony Viscardi's 2011-2012 sabbatical when he was awarded a MacDowell Colony Fellowship to continue his theoretical drawing/visual investigations on "shadow mapping." He has since received the 2013 Faculty Fellowship award from Study Abroad Italy (SAI) in Florence to begin work on a manuscript that documents a drawing method he developed for teaching students to more closely observe the architecture and culture of Italy. Viscardi has also been chosen Artist in Residence for The Experimental Printmaking Institute at Lafayette College in Easton, PA for the 2013-2014 academic year. Throughout his career in architectural practice and as a professor of architecture, Viscardi has continued to work as an artist. He has had solo exhibitions at the Atlanta College of Art, Lehigh University Wilson Gallery, and Gallery 164 in Buffalo, NY, and has exhibited at Nexus Contemporary Art in Atlanta, Philadelphia University of the Arts, Philadelphia Third Street Art Gallery, Auburn University Frank Seltzer Gallery, Allentown Art Museum, and Banana Factory Center for the Arts in Bethlehem, PA. Viscardi's work has been exhibited widely at national and international academic conferences. He developed a particular interest in creative collaboration while working with Italian artist Michelangelo Pistoletto during his three-month residency in Atlanta. He has since engaged in a number of collaborative design-build projects with artists, architects, students, and community members. Viscardi is represented in the NYC Drawing Center curated Artist Registry. Professor Viscardi is a nationally and internationally known scholar-teacher in the design and art of architecture. He has a special interest in study abroad and established the Lehigh in Italy Summer Program in Vicenza in 1995 and serves as its director. He has conducted design workshops and presentations at institutions of higher learning in Canada, Malaysia, Europe, Brazil, and Puerto Rico and was invited to teach a month-long creative design workshop for forty professional architects at the Beijing Victory Star firm.
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