This is a very engaging book I came across at City Lights Bookshop in SF. I didn't get it there. With luck and persistence, the librarian from TPL dug it up for me amidst their system overhaul. The book talks about Sardinian geography, history, memories, owner's lineage, concepts of travel from WWII to present time, and of course architecture. Highly recommended!

#The house at Capo d'Orso #Sebastiano Brandolini

 

Bachelard's Steps

To express a thought, an outdoor staircase waiting to be climbed to the roof is diametrically different from the one buried in a dungeon with little to no daylight.  Yet, these two imageries could form a duality like two sides of the same coin.

 

From the inspired reading of The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard, in which building parts are carefully examined psychologically and revered intimately.  In this work, I use ‘steps’ as the subject and apply it in his manner of investigations. 

 

The work is an attempt to explore on the senses when a person is confronted with an archetype inherently imbued with antagonistic values.

 

 

Music: Old Photo by Aleksey Chistilin (footsteps sampling added)

#stepsart #stepssculpture #staircaseart #staircasesculpture #gastonbachelard #gastonbachelardart #gastonbachelardsculpture #poeticart #poeticsculpture #concretesculpture #concretefolly #follyart #follysculpture #edwardtsui #edwardtsuiart #edwardtsuisculpture #architecturalsculpture #architecturalfolly #miniatureart #miniaturesculpture #interiorsculpture #interiorart

The Marga Klompè Building, Tilburg University has a similitude with the project I am working on, that is the role of columns has been magnified on its psychological duty towards human. The visual impact of the box above, designed by Powerhouse Company, adds to the same effect the weight above the columns of the maquette I am working on. #columnwithmessage, #columnsculpture, #columnmeanssomething, #concreteart, #concretesculpture

Some of my sculptures and a painting have been selected by Art Connect in the 'Best of the Week' competition.

See link: https://www.artconnect.com/artists

#concretesculpture #concreteart #edwardtsui #edwardtsuiart #edwardtsuisculpture

 

 To immerse within, let our eyes be water to glide through and anoint the columns.

 

#columnmaquette #architecturalsculpture #concretesculpture #architecturalart #columnsculpture #columnart #edwardtsui #edwardtsuisculpture

 This is a maquette of a new sculpture - study of columns. I have no name for it yet. Make suggestion if you have one.

 

#columnmaquette #architecturalsculpture #concretesculpture #architecturalart #columnsculpture #columnart #edwardtsui #edwardtsuisculpture

 This is a maquette of a new sculpture - study of columns. I have no name for it yet. Make suggestion if you have one.

 

#columnmaquette #architecturalsculpture #concretesculpture #architecturalart #columnsculpture #columnart #edwardtsui #edwardtsuisculpture

Meeting Expedition Self at opening evening, Latcham Art Gallery. 

The selected works are very high in quality. Lots of works have been made on the organization of this exhibition. Well done everyone. 

#latchamartgallery #juriedexhibitiontoronto #concretearchitecturalart #architecturalsculpture #concretesculptures #floatingtheatre #aldorossiart #teatrodelmondo #teatrodelmondoart

 

Expedition Self | Homage to Aldo Rossi

Expedition Self, 2024 

21.5x16x21cm or 8.5”x6.25”x8.25” (LxWxH)

Paper collage, acrylics on cement and resin

 

This paper collage and painted sculpture is a tribute to the Teatro del Mondo by Aldo Rossi (1931-97).  Dramas and other performances were held in this floating theatre amid journeys throughout the Venice Biennale, 1979-80.  The architect used the discourse of travelling and stage to signify life journeys for his passengers.  This sculpture examines the duality of realism and fantasy through the toy-like theatre, much like the great tradition of modern Italian cinema.

 Other than Venice, showboats could be located from the major rivers of the US to the waterways of Southeast Asia in the past.

See you on http://www.edwardtsui.ca by the end May, 2024.

 

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