Video: Homemade cameras from Tom Sachs
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
From June 12 to September 16, the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Connecticut hosts an exhibition and show of works by the contemporary American sculptor Tom Sachs, which presents twelve handmade cameras. Since 1972, Sachs has been creating sculptures that showcase the development of photography as an art form.
Tom Sachs was born in 1966 in New York, raised in Connecticut, and currently lives and works in his hometown of the Big Apple. He became interested in DIY crafts at the age of eight, when the future sculptor created his first masterpiece, making a copy of a Nikon SLR camera from plasticine, as a gift for his father.
Tom Sachs ties together functional pieces made from disassembled materials, which he remakes into new items with new functional meaning. He creates his engineering and design masterpieces in a peculiar style from simple materials: wood, adhesive tape, plasticine, plywood, electronic parts. The cameras show the increasing propensity of buyers for precision technology, as well as an interest in the functional, practical and socio-economic value of items.
The exhibition at the museum will feature twelve works, from 1972 to the present, where not only the camera itself is examined as a sculptural and functional object, but also shows the role of photography and what scale this art form has acquired over the past century.
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