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

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

Features:
Plywood sculpture made of walnut, composed of two separate elements, dimensions: 26x22x11.5 cm / 28.5x28.5x0.5 cm.
Original and unique sculpture, numbered and signed, complete with gallery art CoA certificate.
Exclusive specimen complete with its original wooden box, numbered accordingly.

Numbering
Tribute sculpture to Ray Eames: walnut plywood version.
Test No. T 20 (IN 44.1155 "Test + Shadow") -
Each handmade test is unique due to the application of different techniques and procedures used in the plywood bending experiment. This numbered test T20 achieved a higher quality level of AA.

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

Concept:
This derived work, a unique numbered sculpture T-20 entirely handcrafted by the Venetian artist Pasqual, uniquely represents the gender discrimination and obscurantism faced by women in the United States of the 1940s.

Initial conceptual tests conducted by the artist Ray Eames to define the design of the sculpture later exhibited in 1944 at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York — DESIGN FOR THE 15TH ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION 'Art in Progress'.
Imaginary test: imperfect works, thus discarded. A wooden sculpture created as a tribute to Ray Kaiser, a homage to the countless discarded testimonies from an initial imaginary 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 exhibition at the MoMA? In an imaginary reconstruction of the research work carried out by Ray Eames in defining the design and fine-tuning the construction method, the artist Marco Pasqual replicated a visionary initial handcrafted construction process, whose outcome generated a series of 'Imperfect Works.' These 'Discarded Works' were envisioned 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 just a black stain 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, that is, the relational properties regarding how a given amount of photons interacts with a specific surface. The scientific approach ultimately appears to deny the being of the shadow. The material chosen to represent the darkness of the shadow in this work was created in a British research laboratory, originally developed for NASA, and described by the researchers as dark (almost) as the heart of a black hole.
Learn more
https://www.marcopasqual.it/the-shadow-does-not-bend