Thaddeus Mosley: Weight in Space
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Author: Mosley, Thaddeus
Born in 1926 in New Castle, Pennsylvania, Thaddeus Mosley has made sculptures from wood for over six and a half decades from his home in Pittsburgh. Using only a chisel and gauge to maintain the integrity of the original log, Mosley reworks salvaged timber into monumental abstractions. Through a process of direct carving, the artist’s marks respond to and rearticulate the natural gradations of the material’s surface. With influences ranging from Isamu Noguchi to Constantin Brâncuși, from Scandinavian design to West African sculpture—Mosley’s “sculptural improvisations,” as he calls them, also take cues from the modernist traditions of jazz. Weight in Space is the most comprehensive monograph on the artist’s oeuvre to date. In addition to a detailed chronology, this volume features new scholarship by Fred Moten and Catharina Manchanda, a conversation between Mosley and Hans Ulrich Obrist, and excerpts from an extensive oral history interview conducted by Bridget R. Cooks and Amanda Tewes.
ISBN 9781961883260. Karma Books, New York. hb. 426 pages. 316 colour, 20 b/w ills. 28 x 26.1 cm.
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Born in 1926 in New Castle, Pennsylvania, Thaddeus Mosley has made sculptures from wood for over six and a half decades from his home in Pittsburgh. Using only a chisel and gauge to maintain the integrity of the original log, Mosley reworks salvaged timber into monumental abstractions. Through a process of direct carving, the artist’s marks respond to and rearticulate the natural gradations of the material’s surface. With influences ranging from Isamu Noguchi to Constantin Brâncuși, from Scandinavian design to West African sculpture—Mosley’s “sculptural improvisations,” as he calls them, also take cues from the modernist traditions of jazz. Weight in Space is the most comprehensive monograph on the artist’s oeuvre to date. In addition to a detailed chronology, this volume features new scholarship by Fred Moten and Catharina Manchanda, a conversation between Mosley and Hans Ulrich Obrist, and excerpts from an extensive oral history interview conducted by Bridget R. Cooks and Amanda Tewes.
ISBN 9781961883260. Karma Books, New York. hb. 426 pages. 316 colour, 20 b/w ills. 28 x 26.1 cm.
not yet published