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| F1 "untitled" By Robert Morris, to show mixed media
1967‑8, remade 2008
L02852
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Aims: To visit the Tate Modern at the South Bank, and to study one exhibition.
Find your favorite room and select pieces of work you find strike a nerve.
Tate Modern
Free exhibition
Floor 4
Room 3
Energy and Processes
The displays of sculpture in the energy and process
exhibition explore the artist’s fascination in “transformation and the natural
forces”.
The space centres around the era of the late 1960’s, where making was highly regarded, and artists used a wide scope of materials rather than associations to the fine art sector. American Robert Morris and his work called “untitled” had the greatest impact for me. Morris gathered sheets of industrial black felt and amended them into strips allowing the material to take a natural form. The underlying message being that Morris was questioning the use of "fixed geometric shapes of minimalist sculpture", and the way minimalism was inflicted upon materials. Morris was a pioneer for minimalist structures; to me this suggests his work touches upon sustainability and use of recyclable materials - felt is also one of the oldest materials known to man - due to its dense, non-woven structure.
The space centres around the era of the late 1960’s, where making was highly regarded, and artists used a wide scope of materials rather than associations to the fine art sector. American Robert Morris and his work called “untitled” had the greatest impact for me. Morris gathered sheets of industrial black felt and amended them into strips allowing the material to take a natural form. The underlying message being that Morris was questioning the use of "fixed geometric shapes of minimalist sculpture", and the way minimalism was inflicted upon materials. Morris was a pioneer for minimalist structures; to me this suggests his work touches upon sustainability and use of recyclable materials - felt is also one of the oldest materials known to man - due to its dense, non-woven structure.
My immediate reaction to the piece was to the materials and
structure. Felt is made from wool so he’s used a very organic and natural material.
Additionally the sculpture to me appeared as a jellyfish or a plant structure,
and this is due to its long twisting arms which mould round one another, to
form a jellyfish like body. The sculpture is a truly natural form
as the felt is left to determine its own shape. Abstract is another word which one
could use to sum up his work, as the art is left to one’s imagination, and this
is what makes the piece striking as it means and looks different to each
person. The sculpture echoes my childhood and being young and free, in the way
the felt tumbles effortlessly from its fixed point to the floor below.
There are many artists who share the space in room 3 from
Richard Tuttle who created the 8th paper Octagonal (noauthor), to Lynda Benglis
whose work is made by pouring polyurethane foam into a corner of the gallery. Tuttle’s work is a huge contrast as his Octagonal
is designed to camouflage itself against the white background, his intention
being for it to disappear into the wall, yet once detected it becomes very clear.
This to me was bizarre, but it consciously made me think and study the shape
more. The Octagonal is awkward because it aligns up with other sculptures and
paintings, being an ultra-thin shape, and it exists strangely in its position
sometimes visible and sometimes not.
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| F2 "8th octagonal" By Richard tuttle 1970 |
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