Thaddeus Mosley: Weight in Space

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Author: Mosley, ThaddeusThaddeus Mosley has made sculptures from wood for over six and a half decades from his home. Using only a chisel and gauge to maintain the integrity of the original log, Mosley reworks salvaged timber into monumental abstractions. The most comprehensive monograph on the artist’s oeuvre to date, this features a detailed chronology, new scholarship by Fred Moten and Catharina Manchanda, the artist in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist, and excerpts from an extensive oral history.Through a process of direct carving, the artist’s marks respond to and rearticulate the natural gradations of the material’s surface. With influences ranging from Isamu Noguchi to Constantin Brâncuși, from Scandinavian design to West African sculpture—Mosley’s “sculptural improvisations,” as he calls them, also take cues from the modernist traditions of jazz. ISBN 9781961883260. Karma Books, New York. hb. 426 pages. 316 colour, 20 b/w ills. 28 x 26.1 cm.not yet published Show more