大卫·阿尔特米德

Le ventre

source: moussemagazineit

David Altmejd’s work iterates fantastical ideas of spirited bodies. He taps into languages abstracted from architecture, ornament, and naturalistic figuration in the making of sculptures which are, for the artist, whole worlds in which he can lose himself in imaginative fantasises of making and open-ended storytelling.

For this exhibition at Modern Art, Altmejd presents three large sculptures, each solely occupying a room within the gallery. The boxed and vitrine-like clear Perspex structures of these sculptures provide support for complex arrangements of symbolic objects and suggestive forms: arrested flows of liquid, coconut shells, silver chains and coloured threads. Creatures of myth and fantasy inhabit the world of Altmejd’s entire oeuvre, and in his new sculptures these bodies have been entirely abstracted into a representation of biological systems, energy-flows and spirits that inhabit architectural dioramas. Altmejd’s approach to making is intuitive and inquisitive, an application of active sculpting in form and narrative that almost pretends to an idea of creation and intelligent design.
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source: phaidon

“I am interested in complexity as a form,” Canadian artist David Altmejd says. “I am happy when people are fascinated by the thing itself, when they are absorbed by it and know that it contains something more. I like experiencing complex objects, but not because I necessarily wish to understand the system. I am seduced by complexity itself. From my perspective, my work is intuitive. I am not able to mention specific reasons why I associate these things. I get a feeling from certain combinations, a feeling that something is going to happen when I mix things together. I do not have to say something; the object will say it. I see my installations as organisms. I start making something but at a certain point it starts making choices by itself.”

As ever, scale, intuition and complexity are important in Altmejd’s new show at the Modern Art gallery in London. The artist is presenting only three works, but, such is their size, each occupies its own room. And the complex arrangements, created within clear perspex vitrine-like structures, are filled again with a vast array of objects and forms – thread, jewelry, coconut shells and “arrested flows of liquid,” among other things.

Le ventre, 2012, David Altmejd Plexiglass, resin, thread, metal wire, acrylic paint, acrylic gel, epoxy clay, coconut shells. photo courtesy Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London
“Creatures of myth and fantasy inhabit the world of Altmejd’s entire oeuvre, and in his new sculptures these bodies have been entirely abstracted into a representation of biological systems, energy-flows and spirits that inhabit architectural dioramas,” a gallery spokesman said. “Altmejd’s approach to making is intuitive and inquisitive, an application of active sculpting in form and narrative that almost pretends to an idea of creation and intelligent design.”
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source: artspycn

大卫·阿尔特米德（David Altmejd）个展近日在伦敦Modern Art开幕。大卫·阿尔特米德（David Altmejd）1974年出生于蒙特利尔，现生活并工作于纽约。大卫·阿尔特米德（David Altmejd）的创作方式是直观而且引人好奇的，他的作品则反复涉及了与生气勃勃的身体相关的奇妙的想法。他在创作雕塑的过程中挖掘了从建筑、装饰以及充满自然气息的定型中分离出来的语言——对这位艺术家来说，这些便是他可以让自己迷失在那些富有想象力的幻想与结局开放的故事中的整个世界。

大卫·阿尔特米德（David Altmejd）在这场展览中展出了三件大型雕塑作品，每一件都单独占据了一个展厅空间。像箱子与玻璃橱窗一样透明的有机玻璃结构为雕塑中那些布置复杂、充满象征性与暗示意义的物品提供了支撑结构，例如流动加以了限定的液体、椰子壳、银质链条和色彩斑斓的丝线等等。充满神秘与幻想气息的生物在大卫·阿尔特米德（David Altmejd）的作品中始终占据了一定的地位；在展出的这3件新的雕塑作品中，这些主体被完全抽象到了存在于建筑立体模型中的生物系统、能量流以及精神的展现之中。