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Tom Friedman



http://www.gagosian.com/artists/tom-friedman/

Tom friedman's funny and clever sculptures are passive-aggressive,
we see them through the eyes of the outsider, the alien, the artist.
looking at these sculptures is sort of like looking too closely
in the mirror and seeing fields of blackheads on your otherwise
lovely and photogenic nose. but at the same time things are
simpler here on friedman's side.
there is humor in his work, but it is very modest and lightly
dispensed. the exquisite fragility is very relaxing.
simple and sometimes trivial ideas are taken to the extreme of
credibility. his pieces are descriptive but devoid of content,
and others spatially empty while inhabited by history.

Sculptures balancing in a precarious equilibrium may appear paradoxical, because of the unusual materials they are
made from: a ring of plastic cups; a dense mass of pencil sections,
or the sculpture obtained by wedging some 30,000 toothpicks in
order to create a fantastic geometric construction that recalls the
structure of a starburst.
'a mentality based on atoms and tiny infinitesimal fragments,'
according to germano celant, cuator of the exhibition 'leaning toward
the sublime, magical atmosphere of a science fiction film by
lucas or spielberg.'

from: http://www.designboom.com

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