Fleur van Dodewaard, 2012
#4 / Red
Created by Fleur van Dodewaard in 2012. The artwork is a inkjet print on aluminum and displayed at 35 x 29 cm.
How does photography relate to the arts of sculpture and painting? These are the types of questions that Dutch artist Fleur van Dodewaard explores in her work. Like her Sun Set Series, the series titled Sculptures Economiques is a contemporary conceptual interpretation of the classic still-life. However minimalistic the work might be, the questions it evokes are highly complex.
In Sculptures Economiques, Van Dodewaard plays with the distinctions between different art disciplines and examines where these boundaries turn blurry. Image #4, showing two red stripes against light-coloured backgrounds, could just as well have been a minimalist painting. The depth contained within the composition is only revealed by the shadow cast by the red block. In this way Van Dodewaard plays with the concept of sculpture, creating a photographic sculpture that lets the viewer see a three-dimensional object through photography’s lens.
© Fleur van Dodewaard, courtesy of the Foam Collection
