Martin Boyce After Light, 2021
Acrylic paint on perforated steel, aluminium, cellulose paint on cast bronze and bronze wire
166,5 x 110 x 18 cm
The panel After Light consists of a painted perforated steel panel onto which a cast bronze fluorescent light transformer, wire and end caps, that would connect to either end of a fluorescent light bulb, have been attached. The long connecting wires swirl and loop creating a graceful drawing. After Light references Martin Boyce's Dead Star series in which lamps with cast bronze lamp holders were shown. The impossibility of illumination through the bronze elements lent these pieces a melancholic poetry, aligning the wonders of the solar system with the quotidian presence of industrial or domestic lamps.
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