| Work Type: | installation | | Date of work: | 1994 | | Materials: | medium: soap, plumbing components
| | Measurements: | height: 28-39 cm
width: 43 cm
depth: 63 cm
notes: each
| | Style Period: | contemporary art | | Subject: | object, soap, bathroom fittings, functionality | | Technique: | carving | | Collection: | New Contemporaries
| | | Description: | 'The three white biomorphic forms that constitute "Dysfunction", could be either three stages of evolution towards a recognizable -functional -object, a sink, or abnormal – dysfunctional- mutations. Similarly, the sickly sweet scent they exude can suggest luxury or corruption.' [MORE][LESS]'The three white biomorphic forms that constitute "Dysfunction", could be either three stages of evolution towards a recognizable -functional -object, a sink, or abnormal – dysfunctional- mutations. Similarly, the sickly sweet scent they exude can suggest luxury or corruption.' | | | Source: | “BT New Contemporaries”, exhibition catalogue, London, 1994. | | | Date of source: | 1994 | | | Description: | 'Hadrian Pigott's work, "Dysfunction", takes as its starting point an ordinary domestic item, a sink. But through the use of material and by subtly altering the form the work metamorphoses into a pure sculptural object. This work operates at many levels; carved soap suggests cleanliness and purity yet it is also a pollutant, it has the look of marble which is hard and resilient, but in fact it is extremely delicate.' [MORE][LESS]'Hadrian Pigott's work, "Dysfunction", takes as its starting point an ordinary domestic item, a sink. But through the use of material and by subtly altering the form the work metamorphoses into a pure sculptural object. This work operates at many levels; carved soap suggests cleanliness and purity yet it is also a pollutant, it has the look of marble which is hard and resilient, but in fact it is extremely delicate.' | | | Source: | Swenson, I., “BT New Contemporaries”, exhibition guide, 1994 | | | Date of source: | 1994 | |
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