Man Ray,(American,1890-1976),Obstruction,original 1920,Moderna Mussett Edition,1961,sixty-three wood coat hangers
Man Ray worked in a wide range of media including photography,painting,and sculpture often blurring the boundaries between these practices.Obstruction,an assemblage of sixty-three wood coat hangers,is an example of a type of artwork that Dada artist Marcel Duchamp called a readymade,a term that suggests Man Ray's appropriation and manipulation of preexisting,common objects.The sculpture playfully mimics a chandelier,but as the hangers seemingly divide and multiply,Obstruction quickly evolves into a dense tangle of overlapping forms.Cast shadows serve as distorted,immaterial extensions of its physical presence.Man Ray first created extension in 1920,but the present work belongs to an edition of fifteen reproductions he created in 1961 for an important exhibition of kinetic art.
Man Ray,(American,1890-1976),Obstruction,original 1920,Moderna Mussett Edition,1961,sixty-three wood coat hangers
Man Ray worked in a wide range of media including photography,painting,and sculpture often blurring the boundaries between these practices.Obstruction,an assemblage of sixty-three wood coat hangers,is an example of a type of artwork that Dada artist Marcel Duchamp called a readymade,a term that suggests Man Ray's appropriation and manipulation of preexisting,common objects.The sculpture playfully mimics a chandelier,but as the hangers seemingly divide and multiply,Obstruction quickly evolves into a dense tangle of overlapping forms.Cast shadows serve as distorted,immaterial extensions of its physical presence.Man Ray first created extension in 1920,but the present work belongs to an edition of fifteen reproductions he created in 1961 for an important exhibition of kinetic art.