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ARTIST MOMENT #9
Chris Gilmour.
He has extremely detailed work. WHy do you feel he gets so technical with the detail in his sculpture?
- One of the reasons why Gilmour gets so technical with the details in his sculpture may be that he wants the audiences to actually look into the construction of the objects when the objects are created in a cardboard form. While people are staring at the stunning details, the cardboard formation will naturally break the rules in the general public's minds; because the rareness of his works makes people imagine the situation when those real-life objects are made out of cardboards. Gilmour successfully achieved the effect of people making connections between his cardboard objects and the same but real objects by using very technical details in his sculptures.
Do you feel his figurative works or his vehicle works are better? Why?
- While I like both figurative and vehicle works equally, I consider the figurative works are better than vehicle works. By looking at Gilmour's figurative work, audiences can feel the way he understood and mastered every muscle or emotion of the figure; because it's way harder than sculpturing with plaster since cardboard is a more flexible and light material. However, for his vehicle works, the artist can visualize the constructions and details of the vehicles, which helps Gilmour to build the details easier. Moreover, the technical requirement for creating a figure is more difficult and precise because Gilmour had to bend the cardboard very carefully so that the shape of the figure will be realistic enough to show the uniqueness.
Do you feel that his work becomes a little repetitive?
- I don't feel that his work is repetitive because I think every piece of artwork Gilmour created has a symbolic meaning, although some are not presented visually. His concept of cardboard art reminds me of another artist called Shannon Goff. One of my favourite works of Goff's is "Miles to Empty", a Lincoln vehicle made in white cardboard. In this work, Shannon Goff recreates her grandfather's 1979 Lincoln car which was a luxury in that period. Not only I like how the details are done as explicit as Gilmour did, the significance behinds this work is also very impressive. This art piece is a symbol to the decline of vehicles' production in Detroit, Michigan, the city of US automobile industry. By using the white color, the car gives us a feeling of old-fashion while also works as a memory effect. Since artists' personal backgrounds played an important role in creating their artworks, Gilmour's works certainly imply lots of meanings behind even though they all just replicate the actual objects in different forms.
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