After Keith Sonnier

Sara Cortesi

Student

Sara Cortesi

Academic staff

Gerhard Glüher Stefano Riba Stephan August Schmidt-Wulffen

Course

Studio Exhibit – When Attitudes Become Re-form

Program

BA Major Art

Semester

2020/21 SS

Exuviae (positive), homemade latex:
96 g corn starch
3 tablespoon of coconut oil
3 glass of water
3 gelatin sheet
3 table spoon of dish-soap

In Keith Sonnier’s works the reference to a tactile experience is very strong. Latex looks like skin, tanned or damaged. This sort of membrane or skin on the wall is slowly and delicately peeled off, as if there was a need for renewal, something that makes one think of a reptile that feels the need to renew itself and make the move. Reptiles are cold-blooded animals, which need to be exposed to thesun for a long time as this guarantees their survival. Heat played a central role in the realization and developmentof the work. This gave rise to an experimentation andinvestigation on different types of surfaces and materials.

<p>homemade latex</p><br /> — homemade latex

<p>wax and aluminium foil</p><br /> — wax and aluminium foil

<p>clay and cotton</p><br /> — clay and cotton

<p>syringes and wax</p><br /> — syringes and wax

Students move a lot. Can the furniture adapt to this lifestyle?

Do you know what happened in the Pergine Valsugana asylum?

A project made in the course

Studio Exhibit – When Attitudes Become Re-form

‘When Attitudes Become Form’ was a groundbreaking exhibition held in 1969 in Bern and re-staged in Venice in 2013 at Prada Foundation. During the summer semester of AY 2019-2020, students were invited to choose, out of the original show, one artist each and to reconstruct the work. They were also expected to produce a work of their own, which would resonate with their replica experience. Important was to introduce the concept of the artist as participant in an ongoing discourse, throughout appropriation and translation.

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