Maintainers
Nairy Baghramian
2019
Cast aluminum, painted aluminum, cork, styrofoam, paraffin wax
175 x 220 x 190 cm
Winsing Arts Collection
Maintainers
Nairy Baghramian
2019
Cast aluminum, painted aluminum, cork, styrofoam, paraffin wax
175 x 220 x 190 cm
Winsing Arts Collection
Baghramian often challenges the limits of sculpture and moulds, object and signification, strength and fragility, organic and mechanical. These works could be exemplary for some discussion around inseparable sculptural and social issues such as instability, hierarchies, dependencies, privileged positions and production processes.
The work consists of three interdependent elements – raw aluminum casts, colored wax forms, and lacquer painted braces. The very different materials of wax and aluminum balance each other and hold each other up, so there's a reciprocal relationship, which exemplifies this inextricable link between idea and form. While presented in a disparate composition within the gallery space, all of the elements connect and resonate together, similar to the human body. Without one another the overall system will, literally, collapse.
