Publication

2017 - Hatje Cantz Verlag GmbH & Co KG

Language

English

Word Count

37,000 words, Guess

Page Count

148 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139783775742771
  • ISBN-103775742778
  • OCLC Control Number982053137
  • Better World Books9783775742771
  • Open LibraryOL28632145M

Classifications

  • LCCN6559.S63
  • LCCNB259.S63 A4 2017

Description

It starts with a simple idea: massive cubes of clay, half a meter high. The sculptures of Mexican artist Bosco Sodi (*1970 in Mexico City), cubes of fired clay stacked in high columns, ought to have exploded while being fired due to the extreme heat released in the material: sand, earth, and water. The richly illustrated publication on Sodi's 'Clay Cubes' explores the course of his experiment. He worked for several months creating the cubes, from compounding the material through layering and forming to drying and firing them in a kiln built especially for this purpose. Piled up to columns in the exhibition, they resemble the proportions of the human body and at the same time create an architecture reduced to the essential. Each cube bears the traces of the work process, following Sodi's typical approach: the process of trying out and arriving as a result whose appearance he may influence, but not foresee.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Bosco Sodi: The Clay CubesHatje Cantz Verlag GmbH & Co KG2017-01-01

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