Terry Kreiter Sculpture
Talking with Duchamp about Kandinski
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| Marcel Duchamp Photo: Kay Bell Reynal (1952) |
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| Wassily Kandinsky, c. 1913 or earlier |
Here's how it came about: In my studio I get surprise visits. This sculpture, "Boris Descending" is about a visit with Duchamp, and involves Kandinski. It's earliest seed was a postcard that my wife Diane sent me, on it was an illustration of a Kandinski print. Years later came the Duchamp visit which unconsciously influenced the composition of my sculpture. I must explain: These visits are almost real.
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| Postcard from Diane: Kandinski |
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| Wax patterns |
My idea was to re-create in wax the shapes in the Kandinski print and cast them in bronze without a preconceived plan for the composition, planning to wait until I saw them in bronze before composing the sculpture.
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| Bride, Marcel Duchamp, 1912 |
Above: Bride, 1912
Oil on canvas, 89.5 x 55 cm
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Right after finishing "Boris Descending" I saw it in my studio through a window, and felt the relationship with the Duchamp composition. I didn't plan this sculpture to be an homage, and maybe I'm the only one that sees this relationship. I'm lucky, Duchamp doesn't always pay visits these days.
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| Boris Descending |
Artist: Terry Kreiter
Title: Boris Descending
Date: 2007
Dim: 12 x 6 x 12 inches
Medium: Cast and fabricated bronze
Supporting material: Drawings in artists sketchbook #21
Provenance: Cast by the artist in the artists studio foundry
Exhibited: Sculpturesite Gallery, San Francisco, CA
