Marco Pasqual - "Mrs. Charles Eames_ The shadow does not bend", Tribute Sculpture to Ray Eames

Artist: Marco Pasqual
Signature: Hand signed
Title:
"Mrs. Charles Eames_ The shadow does not bend"
1944 - When Mo. MA wasn't very modern.
2024 - Tribute to Bernice Alexandra (Ray) Kaiser.

Characteristics:
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 art gallery Co. A certificate:

Numbering:
Tribute-Sculpture to Ray Eames: walnut plywood version.
Test no. T 12 (IN 44. 1155 "TEST DISCARD + SHADOW")

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

Concept:
First imaginary tests carried out by the artist Ray Eames to define the design of the sculpture then exhibited in 1944 at Mo. MA - 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 tribute to Ray Kaiser, a tribute to the countless testimonies discarded from an imaginary initial process of manual plywood bending. Anatomy of a creative process: how many attempts were made in the 1940s to create this complex sculptural work? How many tests were made and then discarded before the final result was obtained for display at Mo. MA? In an imaginary reconstruction of the research work carried out by Ray Eames in defining the design and fine-tuning the construction method, a visionary initial process of artisanal construction was replicated by the artist Marco Pasqual, the result of which generated a series of "Imperfect Works". These 'Discarded Works' were imagined as important study elements, which would be numbered and filed with the T-Test code.
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 spot drawn in the air. What appears to us to be the objectivity of the shadow, would be the objectivity of the laws concerning the manner and degree of illumination of objects, that is, in the relational properties concerning how a given quantity of photons behaves with a given surface. The scientific approach seems to ultimately deny the existence 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 researchers as dark (almost) like the heart of a black hole.

In this derivative work, the Venetian artist Pasqual represents in an original way the obscurantism and gender discrimination of women in the United States of the 1940s.
Find out more:
https: //www. marcopasqual. it/the-shadow-does-not-bend