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Tim Robinson, cartographe de l’espace multiple
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Curieux parcours que celui de cet Anglais du Yorkshire, né en 1935, qui, après de solides études de #Mathématiques à Cambridge et une carrière d’enseignant et de plasticien qui l’a amené à voyager à travers l’Europe jusqu’en Turquie et à vivre successivement à Istanbul, Vienne et Londres, décide en 1972 de renoncer à une carrière de plasticien abstrait, adepte de Naum Gabo et Barbara Hepworth, admirateur de Mondrian et reconnu par l’avant-garde sous le pseudonyme maternel de Timothy Drever, pour partir vivre (...)

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How to Make Art That Withstands the Test of Time - Facts So Romantic
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A degraded frame from an silent celluloid (aka nitrate) film, the same material used by Naum Gabo in some of his sculpturesIn the 1930s, Russian-born sculptor Naum Gabo started experimenting with a thin, plastic material called celluloid. Previously used as film for photography or to make cheap jewelry, celluloid in Gabo’s hands became translucent geometric structures that were often suspended in mid-air. Art critic Herbert Read wrote that Gabo was using “new materials…[for] a new generation to create with them the monuments of a new civilization.” His pieces made their way into the top art collections in the world.But by 1960, the plastic had begun to warp and crack. Gabo didn’t know it when he started using celluloid, but it is an extremely unstable and reactive material, and was (...)