Walnut plywood sculpture. Numbered and signed sculpture, complete with art gallery's CoA certificate: Plywood Sculpture | Proof No. T11-IN 44.1155 "EXHIBIT + SHADOW 1944 - When MoMA was not very modern. 2024 - Homage to Bernice Alexandra (Ray) Kaiser. First imaginary tests to define the design of the sculpture later exhibited at MoMA - The Museum of Modern Art, New York - DESIGN FOR THE 15th ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION "Art in Progress", 1944. The work is professionally packed in a wooden crate and shipped with tracking and insurance for full value. Imaginary proofs: imperfect therefore discarded. Wood sculpture created as a homage to Ray Kaiser, a tribute to the countless discarded proofs from an imaginary initial process of manually bending plywood. Anatomy of a creative process: how many attempts were made to make it a complex sculptural work? How many trials were made and then discarded before the final result was obtained for display at MoMA. In an imaginary reconstruction of Ray's research work in defining the design and fine-tuning the construction method, an initial visionary? An artisanal construction process was replicated, the result of which generated a series of 'Imperfect Works'. These 'Discarded Works' were imagined as important study elements, then all numbered and filed with the code T-Test. In the Shadow 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 seems to us to be the objectivity of the shadow, would be the objectivity of the laws concerning the mode 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 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 being as dark (almost) as the heart of a black hole. An incredibly dark material dubbed 'super-black' creates a special coating composed of millions of carbon nanotubes juxtaposed to trap photons and capable of absorbing almost all light. Objects coated with this innovative material lose their three-dimensionality and appear flat as if they were just black dots drawn in the air, so much so that, according to its inventors, there is no spectrometer in the world powerful enough to analyse it.
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