{"id":5269,"date":"2023-03-26T16:58:42","date_gmt":"2023-03-26T16:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/?p=5269"},"modified":"2024-10-18T09:52:05","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T09:52:05","slug":"contemporary-sculpture-clothes-rack-stack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/contemporary-sculpture-clothes-rack-stack\/","title":{"rendered":"Contemporary sculpture \u2013 clothes rack stack"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" src=\"http:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/contemporary-sculpture-domestic-appliances-P1004825.jpg\" alt=\"Contemporary sculpture constructed from household objects\" class=\"wp-image-5270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/contemporary-sculpture-domestic-appliances-P1004825.jpg 800w, https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/contemporary-sculpture-domestic-appliances-P1004825-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/contemporary-sculpture-domestic-appliances-P1004825-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Clothes Rack Stack<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Commercial clothes racks.      2022<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>An installation composed of three clothes racks forming a pyramid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The pyramid of racks is this size purely because I only possess three clothes racks. Given a larger space and a larger number of racks the pyramid can be huge. You may notice in the photo that as  well as a pausity of racks the low ceiling in the room mitigates against the construction of monumental artworks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a typical example of a work that almost created itself (I thought of it while I was moving the racks so that I could dry my washing). I have often admired the interplay of the horizontal and diagonal lines in the racks while I was using them for their proper purpose, but it was only recently that the idea of stacking them occurred to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This work is probably  partly inspired by the art movements of constructivism, dada and arte povera.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" src=\"http:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/contemporary-installation-clothes-rack-stack-P1004836.jpg\" alt=\"Contemporay art sculpture inspired by constructivism, dada and arte povera\" class=\"wp-image-5271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/contemporary-installation-clothes-rack-stack-P1004836.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/contemporary-installation-clothes-rack-stack-P1004836-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/contemporary-installation-clothes-rack-stack-P1004836-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clothes Rack Stack Commercial clothes racks. 2022 An installation composed of three clothes racks forming a pyramid. The pyramid of racks is this size purely because I only possess three clothes racks. Given a larger space and a larger number of racks the pyramid can be huge. You may notice in the photo that as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,16],"tags":[125],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5269"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5269"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7378,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5269\/revisions\/7378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}