{"id":9190,"date":"2024-07-24T16:33:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T16:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/?p=9190"},"modified":"2024-12-28T20:11:34","modified_gmt":"2024-12-28T20:11:34","slug":"tissue-box-sculpture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/tissue-box-sculpture\/","title":{"rendered":"Tissue box sculpture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"966\" src=\"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/tissue-box-sculpture-contemporary-art-6789.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/tissue-box-sculpture-contemporary-art-6789.jpg 900w, https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/tissue-box-sculpture-contemporary-art-6789-280x300.jpg 280w, https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/tissue-box-sculpture-contemporary-art-6789-768x824.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sculpture created from a tissue box.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Tissue box, gouache.  310x160x55mm   June 2021<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve noticed several artworks recently that are modelled on the shape of tissue boxes. These include one in the recent 2024 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition (Mannanan by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.royalacademy.org.uk\/art-artists\/name\/bryan-kneale-ra\">Brian Kneale RA<\/a>) and a mention of them relating to the work of Florence Carr who is set to do a solo presentation at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frieze.com\/article\/work-progress-florence-carr?utm_source=FRIEZE&amp;utm_campaign=c7c9beb76c-FLFM24_Newsletter_240824_MAIN_SEG_ABTEST&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_f0ebe20dcf-11f169164d-[LIST_EMAIL_ID]&amp;mc_cid=c7c9beb76c\">Frieze London<\/a> 2024 this October. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"570\" src=\"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/tissue-box-sculpture-6791.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/tissue-box-sculpture-6791.jpg 900w, https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/tissue-box-sculpture-6791-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/tissue-box-sculpture-6791-768x486.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A version of my tissue box work containing an object in the form of a door lock (showing the internal structure). <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Above are a couple of photos of one of my own experiments with tissue boxes in which I painted an old tissue box blue on the outside and red on the inside. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My tissue box sculpture was probably inspired by seeing a large marble work by Anish Kapoor in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in (I think) 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I very much doubt that the Anish Kapoor work was inspired by the shape of a tissue box, however once I&#8217;d seen the similarity I couldn&#8217;t get it out of my head, very much in the same way that once you&#8217;ve seen the shape of a human form in an abstract painting you can&#8217;t unsee it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sculpture created from a tissue box. Tissue box, gouache. 310x160x55mm June 2021 I&#8217;ve noticed several artworks recently that are modelled on the shape of tissue boxes. These include one in the recent 2024 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition (Mannanan by Brian Kneale RA) and a mention of them relating to the work of Florence Carr who [&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":[120],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9190"}],"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=9190"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9800,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9190\/revisions\/9800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}