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 n. T 25 (IN 44.1155 "PROVA + OMBRA") -
As a handmade test, each work is different from the other due to the application of different techniques and procedures applied to the bending experiment of the plywood. This numbered test T25 has achieved a superior quality AAA+ level.

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

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

Initial imaginary tests conducted by artist Ray Eames to define the design of the sculpture 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 therefore discarded." Wooden sculpture made as a homage to Ray Kaiser, a tribute to the countless testimonies discarded from an imagined initial manual bending process of plywood. Anatomy of a creative process: how many attempts were made in the 1940s to realize this complex sculptural work? How many proofs were made and then discarded before the final result was obtained for the MoMA exhibition? In an imaginary reconstruction of the research work carried out by Ray Eames in defining the design and tuning the construction method, the artist Marco Pasqual replicated a visionary early manual construction process, whose result generated a series of "Imperfect Works." These 'Discarded Works' were imagined as important study elements, which would 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 only a black blot drawn in the air. What seems to be the objectivity of the shadow would be the objectivity of the laws regarding the way and degree of illumination of objects, i.e., in the relational properties concerning 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 made in a British research laboratory, originally developed for NASA and described by the researchers as dark (almost) as the heart of a black hole.

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