Indestructible ( broken)

Indestructible (broken), 2020 

Marble, wood, stones 

199

#Destefoundation, #gravity #masonry#petrification  #sculpture #kostisvelonis #hydra #hydraslaughterhouse,# exhibition #199 

 

Socle du monde

Piero Manzoni, Socle du monde (base of the world), 1961

Iron, bronze

82 x 100 x 100 cm

Hyperion Has Stumbled

Hyperion Has Stumbled (detail), 2018 

When you daydream while walking—and, with your eyes set on the sky, you find that evidently you are not Hyperion, celebrated by Hölderlin in his writings, who lingers above earth—it is easy to stumble. Yet the daydreamer’s clash with reality is from another perspective a creative or even an insightful encounter, and one of the ideal media that causes people to fall over obstacles is sculpture. In this lecture, I will argue for a conceptual shift from the celebrated dexterity of the hand to the despised clumsiness of the leg. I will share samples of my work that stick to and never leave the ground. These works confirm the close dependency of sculpture on an onerous and yet surprisingly generative reality.

Location: Scheide Caldwell House
Title: Hyperion Has Stumbled
Speaker: Kostis Velonis (Stanley J. Seeger Visiting Research Fellow)
Respondent: Mitra Abbaspour, (Princeton University Art Museum)
Time: 1:30 p.m.

December 7 at Princeton University

A Sculpture is What you Bump Into by Accident and You’re Okay

One does not have to look up to the sky as a jay-walker in order to stumble. Sometimes, all it takes is to be in a gallery, enjoying the artwork, until you bump into a sculpture. This was at least the view of one of the most important thinkers and painters of American abstract art, Barnett Newman, who had said that “sculpture is what you bump into [i.e. by accident] when you back up to see a painting.” And yet our contact with sculpture’s blatant materiality--accidental as it may be--also prepare us to accept the aggravating conditions of a life in a constant struggle with its own imperfections and defects. 

Location: Hamilton 616
Title: A Sculpture is What you Bump Into by Accident and You’re Okay 
Speaker: Kostis Velonis (Princeton University)
Respondent: Rebekah Rutkoff (New Jersey Institute of Technology)
Time: 6:00-7:15pm

November 14 at Columbia University

Circus Aedificare

Circus Aedificare is a construction machine that pours a free and unorganized matter around it. The ritual spilling of matter accumulates to the point of constituting an enclosure around it, made of a pure and anarchic accumulation. This absence of constructive economy has for counterpart to obtain an architecture which is exchanged with the field of Painting or Sculpture. In the idea of synthesis of arts, this building succeeded to move the painting dripping method in the field of Architecture. By withdrawing from construction knowledge, it is the density of the material itself that gives shape to the building and its natural distribution.

http://www.marcleschelier.com/circus-aedificare  

State of Suspense

State of Suspense, 2017 

Wood, acrylic, felt, oil 
10 x 5 x 4 cm