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Maren Hassinger
Leaning, 1980
Emerging from Hassinger's training in fiber arts and longstanding interest in dance, Leaning captures movement in sculptural form, falling somewhere between object-making and performance. "I… began to use the cable in a fiberlike manner," she recalled. "I bunched it and bound it with wire, then unplied all the strands. I noticed that the material began to resemble living, moving, growing things." The thirty-two bundles that compose the work give the impression of movement, from the smallest details -- the unraveling of the steel rope at the tops and bottoms of each bale -- to the way the entire installation seems to sway and bend, as though moved by wind. |