Luke Hart
Unrolled Cone
October 13, 2022
In this encounter of Art, Design and Architecture of Monterrey named CUADRANTE during the Santa Lucia Festival, Colector will reveal a public sculpture on the esplanade of a new building in one of the most important avenues of our municipality. Chain-Link Twist IV: Serpentine by Luke Hart (London) is a small-scale sculptural version of the fourth arrangement in his series of Chain-Link Twist sculptures. This consists of a variety of configurations of serial bars of steel connected by flexible mechanical joints and twisted into structural and self-supporting standing structures.
The works in the series continue and expand upon an interest that I have had with making functional sculptural structures, with functional in this sense being distinct from having use value, the word used in the sense that the works perform the basic function of simply standing. These configurations, while potentially aesthetically pleasing, are based more upon geometric logic, and functionality, while hoping to interest the viewer in a physical and experiential sense, rather than a purely aesthetic one.
Colector.