Jacques Bedel
Photo by Fabian Canas. Courtesy the artist
Jacques Bedel, "Approximation to Infinity" (2008). Mixed media, 19 ½ x 39 in. (open)
By Lyra Kilston
Published: November 1, 2008
"Jacques Bedel" at Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Buenos Aires)
An experimental sculptor and architect, Jacques Bedel was drawn to the most primal elements of materials, leading him to create a body of work with mirrors, disks of color, light projections, magnetic fields, movable sculptures, and colored shadows. In the early 1970s, political unrest in his native Argentina led to a series of works in which Bedel used articles of clothing to create a haunting protest against state violence. A few years later, he began to construct books without words, using instead the form of the book as a purely visual experience or as a foundation for sculptural forms, such as architectural ruins. Books ultimately became Bedel’s primary medium; he felt they operated as paradoxical objects, closed and withdrawn, or open and constituting a new sculptural plane. This exhibition presents 40 recent works in which Bedel explores new materials and reviews the results of his lifelong dedication to aesthetic rigor, natural materials, Argentinian identity, and cosmological questions. "Jacques Bedel" originally appeared in the November 2008 issue of Modern Painters. For a complete list of articles from this issue available on ARTINFO, see Modern Painters' November 2008 Table of Contents.
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