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Andrew Grassie Small Acts: potato sculpture, 2025
Egg tempera on paper on board
17 x 23 cm (unframed)
28 x 34 cm (framed)
28 x 34 cm (framed)
Andrew Grassie's series of works draws on the artist's interest in the documentation of small-scale modernist sculpture in the first part of the 20th century. Grassie began to stage still lifes and to photograph them in such as way to approximate the aesthetic of those seemingly casual photographs. The artist produced a number of assemblages that faintly echo early modernist works, using common items, among them sticks, small objects in simple geometric shapes, or even potatoes, as in this work. From photos of these groupings set in his studio, the new paintings developed.
The new series of paintings begun in 2024 constitute an alternative and imaginary history of art: a painting of a photograph of a sculpture assembled from everyday items in such a way that it recalls the way modernist sculpture was at one point photographed.
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