I have just been introduced to this amazing artist, Conrad Shawcress. His work is fabulous, very string theory meets art, and I love it!
I hope you have a wonderful day!
Love,
Jamie
Imbued with an appearance of scientific rationality, Conrad Shawcross’s sculptures explore subjects that lie on the borders of geometry and philosophy, physics and
metaphysics. Attracted by failed quests for knowledge in
the past, he often appropriates redundant theories and methodologies to create ambitious structural and mechanical montages, using a wide variety of materials and media, and working on an epic scale. Different technologies –
nautical and audio-visual – and different natural forces inspire his forms, but his mysterious machines and structures remain enigmatic, filled with paradox and wonder. Some have an absurdist melancholy feel, while others
tend to the sublime.
More recently, with another group of works, Conrad Shawcross has begun to experiment with ideal geometries and topologies; these constructions are conceived as systems, sometimes modular, sometimes mechanical,
which could be theoretically extended infinitely into space. In these and other sculptures, Shawcross pays tribute to
some of the great pioneers and analysts, and considers a specific moment or figure from the past.
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