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GORDAN D. RAPP

I find wood cuttings-simple shapes from carpentry workshops, furniture makers, lumberyards - and assemble them into complex sculptures which are formal yet dynamic and mysterious. I rearrange these normally discarded items to conform to my concepts, my vision of the complexities of our society and our lives.

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One Dimensional Man Wood 44"x59"x13"  ©1981

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ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG
Hoarfrost: a thin layer of crystalline ice which on a window blurs the objects outside.
Robert Rauschenberg's series of Hoarfrost collages in their faint, fugitive imagery, may translate our present state of uncertainty about the world. The basic color in each piece derives from the color of the materials he uses-satin, muslin, nylon, etc. - layered one over the other. As one approaches, one realizes the fragility of the materials and perceives the hoarfrost tracery of images printed on them - images from the artist's boundless repertory of ready-mades in the mass media. He transfers objects of his fancy, images of heavy things like chains and machine parts onto often diaphanous materials; other images appear in reverse. From a distance these register only as design or shading. He has forced them out of any meaningful context so that like people reading in an unknown language we see them as an arrangement of signs. Only by peering intently can we discern what he has done. "Listening happens in time", Rauschenberg has stated, "Looking also has to happen in time."

Adapted from an article  by  Joan
Lowndes, Vancouver Sun, June 24, 1975 
 
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Monitor (Hoarfrost) College & solvent transfer on cloth 48"x37 1/2" ©1975
Courtesy of Leo Castelli Gallery Photo: Devan Davies