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Motion Matters
at
Boston
Sculptors Gallery
Exhibit
Dates: January 6 –
February 7, 2010
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here to see more of Kim Bernard's work
click
here to see a short video of this recent exhibit
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| Motion
Matters debut’s Bernard’s kinetic sculpture entitled Bardo
State, an installation of 49 cement spheres suspended by
springs from the ceiling. In
Tibetan Buddhism, the Bardo State is the interregnum twixt death
and rebirth, lasting 49 days.
It is also considered a meditational state or dream
stage. Bernard
invites the viewer to stand back and observe the performance
where multiples come together in choreographed reiterations
resulting in moving sculpture.
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Also
on view is Bernard’s wall sculpture Pinch, Poke, Pound, Punch,
Scratch, Dig, Elbow, a grouping of seven round
steel frames. Inspired
by Richard Serra’s verb list, Bernard’s makes gestures onto
clay which are then cast in wax, leaving behind a record as the
result of an action done to materials.
“A mathematical equivalent to my process would be
summarized by the equation, movement
+ materials = form.” |
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| Spiraling
Inward, an ensemble of video, drawing and sculpture, is a
record of a repetitive spiral process in 2-D, 3-D and time based
media. “Attaching
the video camera to my hand, I took footage of me drawing large
spirals on a page. Varying
the speed of the line, the camera pans the elliptical loops.
Though the hand cannot be seen, the fingers and the
graphite can.” Both
the drawings and the coil sculptures are a record, or residual,
of the process.
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