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goo/ooze/putty

[viscosity & congelation]




Wim T. Schippers: Peanut Butter Floor, 1962
[This photo: Centraal Museum, Utrecht, 1997]






Thomas Rentmeister: Ohne Titel (Nutella), 2000
         


 



Wim T. Schippers: Plast-o-lux, 1963



Louise Bourgeois: Soft Landscape, 1967



Lynda Benglis: Quartered Meteor, 1969


César: Expansion Murale, 1975



Roxy Paine: Scumak No. 20 (RF), 1999

 

 


 



Gotthard Graubner: Farbleib (Schneewittchen), 1963
["Pillow Piece"]



Anish Kapoor: Blood, 2000
[Fibreglass and lacquer]

 



 



César: Expansion No. 14, 1970
       



Thomas Rentmeister: Ohne Titel, 1994
[Polyester resin; edition of 3]

 




Some of the above pieces can be considered as "process art", in that their creation was a direct result of the viscosity properties of the actual material. Other pieces (Graubner, Rentmeister '94, Kapoor) allude to such processes in an essentially mimetic fashion.

More viscosity pieces by:
  César      
  Lynda Benglis      
  Roxy Paine      


this page compilled by remko scha, 2012