Alexandra Bircken - Contemporary Artists

Unit 1 (and detail)

Unit 1 (and detail) The Saatchi Gallery
 

Alexandra Bircken

Unit 1 (and detail)

2008
Coated aluminium, aluminium rods, polyurethane foam, fabric, wool

Frame: 140 x 220 cm Base: 80 x 185 cm

Embedded and held aloft as if on a weaver’s loom, lowly materials such as found tree trunks, slices of Styrofoam, building offcuts and thin cloth swatches (seen in Unit 1, Unit 3 and Unit 4, all 2008) are reincarnated as a new kind of artwork, twisting traditional painting and sculpture into icons of vernacular art and craft.
 
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