Behind the Mask Sign (from 3-D Cover of Not-a-Superhero No. 10)
Luca Buvoli
Italian, born 1963
1996
An airy installation in which Luca Buvoli assembles wire, plexiglass, cloth, candy wrappers and other found plastics into a precarious, language-like construction that both names and obscures meaning.
You first notice fragile, cartoonish letters and a red curving stroke balanced on a skeletal stand, whose translucent materials throw wavering, layered shadows that seem to float and refract across the cornered walls.
The work turns disposable detritus into ephemeral typography, continuing a modern sculptural interest in readymades, shadow play, and the ways three-dimensional objects can produce text and narrative in space.
Medium
Wire, plexiglass, cloth, plastic, tinfoil, monofilament, candy wrappers, plastic tubing, plastic straws, plastic netting, and a scrubbie
Dimensions
Dimensions variable, approximately 11' x 9' x 48" (335.2 x 274.3 x 121.9 cm)
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Credit
Andreas C. Dracopoulos Fund
Accession
743.1998.a-b
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