Maurice Citron
(40 years old. Born in United Kingdom. Lives in: London)
Byam Shaw School of Art
In the studio, I get completely lost in the moment. I forget time, I forget myself. At hand is a plethora of materials including steel, wood, styrofoam, expanding foam, rubber, stones as well as a collection of different found objects including bicycle tyres, car parts, various bits from vacuum cleaners, spin dryers, chairs, wooden banisters and a range of stretchy fabrics, including different coloured spandex, powernetting and sheet latex.
I bring these different materials together, and through various processes, they are transformed. I try to develop processes that are unpredictable and not entirely controllable so that the outcome is a surprise. In this respect, the reading of the work is in its making and I’m fascinated by the apparent ability of materials and objects to retain a temporal quality of process. To some extent, through the making process, the work discovers itself.
My current studio focus is developing processes that will generate structure. I have been enveloping objects and different materials in stretchy fabrics. Through the interplay of found objects, material and fabric, work is produced beyond preconception.
The transformations move towards the unknown and the work has a non-identity, fugitive quality. There is also a sense of the absurd in the work inspired by writers such as Samuel Beckett, Flann O’Brien and Luigi Pirandello. The found object suggests a narrative but it is also considered as a historical artefact suspended in the potential fluid movement of the fabric; an interesting tension which I plan to develop further.
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Work of art I would like to make
If I was chosen as one of the 4 New Sensations, I would use the resource to develop my work in two specific ways.
My first intention would be to get the objects working outdoors. I’d need time and resources to experiment with different waterproof materials that could replace the lycra I currently use.
The second aim is to increase the scale of the work. The problem is finding materials strong enough to take heavier weight, whilst retain the flexibility to allow me work in an improvisational way.
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My Artworks (6)
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