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Giuseppe Penone’s hand is so strong, it can squeeze trees. I’m talking about his bronze sculpture of a hand, of course. This Italian artist installed it onto a tree in Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, in 1968, and it’s even more spectacular after many decades have passed.

The “Continuerà a crescere tranne che in quel punto” (“It Will Continue to Grow Except at this Point”) was made from a cast of the artist’s actual hand and lower arm. Giuseppe attached in onto a sapling, and throughout the years the tree would thicken around the metal. Now, it looks like that hand is stretching the bark with its fingers. (Source)

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The Enigma of Isidore Ducasse, 1920, Man Ray

Medium: readymade

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Lawrence Abu Hamda, winner of the 2019 Turner Prize. 

This  audiovisual installation acts as a portrait of the time travelling life and work of Bassel Abi Chahine. A 30 year old writer and historian who  has managed to obtain the most comprehensive inventory of extremely rare  objects, photographs and interviews of the PLA and PSP socialist  militia led by Walid Joumblatt during the Lebanese civil war. He amassed  this archive and taught himself how to read and identify all manner of  military equipment including every pattern of camouflage and the origin  of every AK 47, be it Bulgarian, Polish, Soviet, Chinese in each of his  images. All this obsessive analysis and unprecedented research into this  one militia was done in pursuit of material that could reconstitute  what he describes as flashbacks and unexplainable memories from a  previous life. Through his research Abi Chahine realised that the lucid  and personal memories of the war that he had lived with his whole life, were due to the fact that he was the reincarnation of a soldier Yousef Fouad Al Jawhary, who died when he was 16 in February 26 1984 in the town of Aley. Since  the end of the war it was deemed necessary for the national interest to  suppress specific details pertaining to sectarian conflicts in order not  to incite further tensions between the formerly warring parties. This  has meant that Bassel’s generation grew up with rumours and tales and  hints not to ask too many questions. Yet former soldiers and commanders of the PSP felt at ease to break this rule and imparted to Abi Chahine information, personal photographs, and artefacts because they believe him to be the reincarnation of one of their former comrades. His  reincarnation and his research are inseparable. Yet for Bassel it is not his intention to expose the silenced events that he has uncovered about  what happened during the war, but rather to seek material and tangible traces that it happened at all, and most of all, despite not being alive  at the time, that it happened to him.

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In 2016 Lawrence Abu Hamdan, (winner of 2019 Turner Prize), worked with Amnesty International and Forensic Architecture to produce an acoustic investigation into the Syrian regime prison of Sayndaya 25km North of Damascus, where over 13,000 people have been executed since the protests in 2011 began. The prison is inaccessible to independent observers and monitors. The memory of those few who were released is the only resource available from which to learn of and document the violations taking place there. However, the capacity of detainees to see anything in Saydnaya was highly restricted as mostly they were kept in darkness, blindfolded or made to cover their eyes. As a result, the prisoners developed an acute sensitivity to sound. Abu Hamdan worked with survivors’ earwitness testimony to help reconstruct the prison’s architecture and gain insight as to what is happening inside. Since the investigations completion Abu Hamdan has been developing a growing body of evidence that pertains to the projects more fragile truths; works in which human memory, architecture, violence, and the processes of reconstruction are entangled and become irreducible to the language and urgency of human rights and advocacy. Saydnaya (ray traces) ‘Ray tracing’ is a tool for digital visualisation used in architectural design to map all the potential acoustic leaks throughout a building. Each line speculatively models the way a sound wave reflects off the walls, floors and ceilings to produce an architectural ultrasound scan. Here, ray tracing is not applied as a design tool but rather to understand the acoustic constitution of Saydnaya. These ray traces give a very different image of incarceration - they show that the experience is not only not being to leave ones’ cell, but that one cannot control the sounds that are coming in. In these drawings space is not defined by its separate architectural elements but rather as an environment composed of reflective surfaces. Visually it is just about possible to make out the shape of the stairs or the central cylindrical watchtower in the way the lines bounce off their surfaces and collide with the walls and floors around them. However, these are not designed to allow us to see the space but rather to see the way in which a building sounds. http://lawrenceabuhamdan.com/#/sayadna/

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Phantom Bodies

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Estranged Body: The Skin of Things

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Portfolio PDF

https://drive.google.com/open?id=12dBraLnhTO3j3jZSj7j8-BKjEKlJpZty

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BEGINNING SCULPTURE (FALL 2019): Final Tumblr Portfolio Index

AUTOMOBILE

Estranged Bodies: Reference

Estranged Bodies: Process

Estranged Bodies: Final

Estranged Bodies: Organic

Estranged Bodies: Inorganic

De-Table-ization: Process

De-Table-ization: Final

Structuring the Body and Bodily Structures: Process

Structuring the Body and Bodily Structures: Final

Phantom Bodies: Reference

Phantom Bodies: Process

Phantom Bodies: Final

Readymade Bodies: Process

Readymade Bodies: Final

Final PDF Portfolio

50 Artists

Passages

FINAL INDEX

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BEGINNING SCULPTURE (FALL 2019)  Final Tumblr Portfolio Index.

1. AUTOMOBILE 

2. Estranged Bodies: Reference part2 part3

3. Estranged Bodies: Process part2 part3

4. Estranged Bodies: Final part2

5. Estranged Bodies: Organic part2

6. Estranged Bodies: Inorganic part2

7. De-Table-ization: Process part2 part3

8. De-Table-ization: Final

9. Structuring the Body and Bodily Structures: Process part2 part3

10. Structuring the Body and Bodily Structures: Final

11. Phantom Bodies: Reference part 2 part3

12. Phantom Bodies: Process part 2

13. Phantom Bodies: Final

14. Readymade Bodies: Process part2

15. Readymade Bodies: Final

16.Final PDF Portfolio

17. 50 Artists

18. Passages

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Final Index

AUTOMOBILE

Estranged Bodies: Reference

Estranged Bodies: Process

Estranged Bodies: Final

Estranged Bodies: Organic

Estranged Bodies: Inorganic

De-Table-ization: Process

De-Table-ization: Final

Structuring the Body and Bodily Structures: Process

Structuring the Body and Bodily Structures: Final

Phantom Bodies: Reference

Phantom Bodies: Process

Phantom Bodies: Final

Readymade Bodies: Process

Readymade Bodies: Final

Final PDF Portfolio

50 Artists

Passages

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Final Tumblr Portfolio Index

AUTOMOBILE

Estranged Bodies: Reference

Estranged Bodies: Process

Estranged Bodies: Final

Estranged Bodies: Organic

Estranged Bodies: Inorganic

De-Table-ization: Process

De-Table-ization: Final

Structuring the Body and Bodily Structures: Process

Structuring the Body and Bodily Structures: Final

Phantom Bodies: Reference

Phantom Bodies: Process

Phantom Bodies: Final

Readymade Bodies: Process

Readymade Bodies: Final

Final PDF Portfolio

50 Artists

Passages

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BEGINNING SCULPTURE (FALL 2019)  Final Tumblr Portfolio Index.; Leonardo Vidal

(Editor note: Any extra numbers next to the hyperlink are the other posts within the subject matter.)

AUTOMOBILE Estranged Bodies: Reference 2 3 Estranged Bodies: Process Estranged Bodies: Final Estranged Bodies: Organic Estranged Bodies: Inorganic De-Table-ization: Process De-Table-ization: Final Structuring the Body and Bodily Structures: Process Structuring the Body and Bodily Structures: Final Phantom Bodies: Reference Phantom Bodies: Process Phantom Bodies: Final Readymade Bodies: Process Readymade Bodies: Final Final PDF Portfolio 50 Artists 1 2 3 4 5 (It was easier to make imgur posts) Passages

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BEGINNING SCULPTURE (FALL 2019)

AUTOMOBILE

Estranged Bodies: Reference

Estranged Bodies: Process

Estranged Bodies: Final

Estranged Bodies: Organic

Estranged Bodies: Inorganic

De-Table-ization: Process

De-Table-ization: Final

Structuring the Body and Bodily Structures: Process

Structuring the Body and Bodily Structures: Final

Phantom Bodies: Reference

Phantom Bodies: Process

Phantom Bodies: Final

Readymade Bodies: Process

Readymade Bodies: Final

Final PDF Portfolio

50 Artists

Passages

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BEGINNING SCULPTURE (FALL 2019)

AUTOMOBILE

Estranged Bodies: Reference1, Reference2

Estranged Bodies: Process

Estranged Bodies: Final

Estranged Bodies: Organic

Estranged Bodies: Inorganic

De-Table-ization: Process, Stills

De-Table-ization: Final

Structuring the Body and Bodily Structures: Process

Structuring the Body and Bodily Structures: Final

Phantom Bodies: Process

Phantom Bodies: Final

Readymade Bodies: Process1, Process2

Readymade Bodies: Final

Final PDF Portfolio

50 Artists

Passages

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BEGINNING SCULPTURE (FALL 2019)  Final Tumblr Portfolio Index.

AUTOMOBILE

Estranged Bodies: Reference   1   2   3

Estranged Bodies: Process 1   2

Estranged Bodies: Final

Estranged Bodies: Organic 

videos 1 2 3        images 1

Estranged Bodies: Inorganic

videos 1 2 3 4 5        images 1

De-Table-ization: Process

De-Table-ization: Final   1    2

Structuring the Body and Bodily Structures: Process

Structuring the Body and Bodily Structures: Final  1    2

Phantom Bodies: Reference   1     2

Phantom Bodies: Process

Phantom Bodies: Final     1      2

Readymade Bodies: Process

Readymade Bodies: Final  1   2

Final PDF Portfolio  ( just in case if not accessible)

50 Artists

Passages