Caesura

I went to see the Caesura exhibition at the Reid gallery yesterday. The works of Naum Gabo, Raydale Dower and Ben Laposky stood out for me as they all deal in one way or another with sound, music and movement through space (concerns that I am also interested in exploring in rhythm, colour and form!).  The accompanying exhibition material refers to sound as being periodic in that it occurs over time and 'as a form exists as a motion through space'. It's interesting to see how the works of these artists all share the same conceptual concern over motion in space but their ideas are manifested in different ways. 

Ben Laposky, Oscillions (1952-54) 

Both Gabo and Dower's works are sculptural in nature...and though the are beautiful objects, I actually found myself more interested in the light and dark shadows cast by Dower's piece and imagining them in motion.

Naum Gabo, Linear Construction No. 1, 1942-43.
Perspex and nylon monofilament.

Top left and right: Raydale Dower, Poeme Electronique Revealed
Structure (after Iannis Xenakis, Le Corbusier & Edgar Varese, 1958)
 Bottom left: Raydale Dower, Untitled (Score), 2014.