viscosity

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


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]