Video: Conceptual sculptures by Tom Friedman
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Many artists have devoted themselves to creating works of art from the simplest material. With the touch of their talented hand, with the help of creative thinking and discerning eyes, as well as their genius, ordinary paint, clay and everyday objects, which were at the right time at hand, acquire a higher meaning. In the works of the American sculptor Tom Friedman, ordinary rubbish, shards, remnants and scraps of various objects and things - toothpaste, toothpicks, spaghetti, plastic straws, sugar becomes unrecognizable, transforming into extraordinary sculptural works. Tom Friedman's original series includes a ball of 1,000 chewing gum, a self-portrait made of aspirin tablets, a star symbol with 30,000 toothpicks radiating from it, and a 4-foot human figure made from refined sugar.
Tom Friedman is an American conceptual sculptor known for using the most common materials to create intricate, aesthetically pleasing geometric structures. Friedman was born in St. Louis, Missouri, earned a bachelor's degree in graphic illustration from the University of Washington in St. Louis, then a master's degree in sculpture from the University of Illinois, Chicago. Exhibitions of his work are held in New York, San Francisco, London, Rome, Geneva and Tokyo. The first solo exhibition of works by sculptor Tom Friedman took place in 1991 in Chicago and New York.
While many artists strive to strike a balance between skill and concept, Friedman easily embraces these two concepts in his work, creating visually intriguing and rich works of art, with an idea embedded in them. In the work of Tom Friedman, there is an idea of short duration and fragility. Very often in the art world, we hear about the importance of durable and quality starting material in the creation of works of art. Photographers, sculptors, painters try to keep their creation "alive" as long as possible. But in the case of Tom Friedman, his sculptural work is very often temporary. Their goal is to lure the audience into deep phenomenological discourse about life and art.
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