DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum presents PLATFORM 12: Aaron Stephan an exhibition on view Jul 10, 2013 – Oct 01, 2013.
Courtesy of the artist.
Maine-based artist Aaron Stephan recreates iconic twentieth-century sculptures in the vernacular of deCordova’s buildings and grounds. The three-part installation will be located on the Rappaport Rooftop Terrace, on the Sculpture Park Terrace, and in the Sculpture Park. Stephan employs everyday forms including railings and trash barrels to recontextualize modern sculptural masterpieces by artists such as Vladimir Tatlin, Donald Judd, and Robert Smithson.
Stephan notes: “In my proposed installation, I focus on the use of sculpture as an idealized or utopian space that is expressed through form. I have appropriated a group of iconic twentieth-century sculptures and contextualized them in the site. It could be said that the alleged autonomy of the borrowed form is corrupted by the reality of an everyday context. Hopefully these new works will explore the possibility of utopian form that stands within its environment rather than outside of it.”
deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum
51 Sandy Pond Road
Lincoln, MA 01773
www.decordova.org