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PAST EXHIBITION
Ruth Hardinger: Reverse Count
May 30, 2008—August 11, 2008
Press Release
Washington Square Windows is pleased to announce an exhibition of the work of Ruth Hardinger which will be on public view from May 30th through August 11th, 2008. The installation is mounted in three windows facing Washington Square Park and is lighted 24 hours a day. We welcome all inquiries from the press and the public. Please stop by.
Cast concrete blocks are bound up with knotted and coiled rope to become a pendulous, free-falling sculpture. Shadowed passages punctuate the perforated cement beads tracing their starry paths along the walls. These planar patterns are then echoed in the fluid and gentle wobbles of a neighboring watercolor. Two and three-dimensional realms are now intriguingly fastened together with a visual linkage of continuous line.
Hardinger ropes, binds, and suspends concrete beaded blocks that take precipitous shape from the counterbalance of their weighty interconnected parts. "Although this work clearly stands in abstraction, it has something in common with a nautical necklace or an offering bundle. Further associations ... to the ancient Mayan calendar (the long count), to the precession of the earth's axis, and to drawing connections to create constellations, are other possibilities. A process-in-progress, this installation offers a window into the way illusion, shadow and reality reciprocate." |
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