Marco Pasqual - Mrs. Charles Eames _ The shadow does not bend

Title:
"Mrs. Charles Eames_ The shadow does not bend"
1944 - When the MoMA wasn’t very modern.
2024 - Tribute to Bernice Alexandra (Ray) Kaiser.

Features:
Walnut plywood sculpture composed of two separate elements, dimensions: 26x22x11.5 cm / 28.5x28.5x0.5 cm.
Original and unique sculpture, numbered and signed, complete with gallery CoA certificate:

Numbering:
Tribute-Sculpture to Ray Eames: walnut plywood version.
Test no. T 25 (IN 44.1155 "PROOF + SHADOW") -
As a handmade test, each piece is different from the other due to the application of different techniques and procedures applied to the plywood bending experiment. This numbered test T25 achieved a superior AAA+ level quality

Artist:
Marco Pasqual - Venice Italy _ https://www.marcopasqual.it/the-shadow-does-not-bend

Concept:
This derived work, a unique numbered sculpture T-25 handmade entirely by the Venetian artist Pasqual, originally represents the obscurantism and gender discrimination of women in the United States in the 1940s.

Early imaginary tests conducted by the artist Ray Eames to define the sculpture’s design and later exhibited in 1944 at MoMA - The Museum of Modern Art, New York - DESIGN FOR THE 15TH ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION "Art in Progress".
"Imaginary tests: imperfect thus discarded." Wooden sculpture made as a tribute to Ray Kaiser, a homage to the countless discarded testimonies from an imagined initial process of manual plywood bending. Anatomy of a creative process: how many attempts were made in the 1940s to realize this complex sculptural work? How many trials were conducted and then discarded before the final result was achieved for the MoMA exhibition? In an imaginary reconstruction of the research work carried out by Ray Eames in defining the design and refining the construction method, Venetian artist Marco Pasqual replicated a visionary early process of artisanal construction, whose result generated a series of "Imperfect Works." These 'Discarded Works' were imagined as important study elements, to be numbered and cataloged with the code T-Test.

In the Shadow that accompanies the work, there is total darkness: the object loses its three-dimensionality and appears flat as if it were just a black blot drawn in the air. What seems to be the objectivity of the shadow would be the objectivity of the laws concerning the way and degree of illumination of objects, i.e., the relational properties of how a given amount of photons behaves with a given surface. The scientific approach ultimately seems to deny the being of the shadow.

The material chosen to represent the darkness of the shadow in this work was developed in a British research laboratory, originally developed on behalf of NASA and described by researchers as dark (almost) as the heart of a black hole.

Learn more:
https://www.marcopasqual.it/the-shadow-does-not-bend