Froebel's Gifts; Blue Circuit. 2018. 18' x 8' x 7' welded aluminum with auto body paint.
at Josephine Sculpture Park, Frankfurt, KY
at Josephine Sculpture Park, Frankfurt, KY
FROEBEL'S GIFTS
welded aluminum with auto body paint contact
Froebel's gifts: energized cube , 2017, 16' x'4 x 4' top right, was the first large scale sculpture in the series.
It was commissioned for the permanent collection of the Kenner Sculpture Garden in New Orleans, The sculpture is made of twelve identical 42" high welded aluminum modules fabricated from 3" x 3" hollow tubes . The sculpture was painted after fabrication, prior to Installation.
Top left is Froebel's Gifts: Blue Circuit, 2018, 18' x 8'x 7' , on loan to the Ohr 0Keefe Museum in Biloxi, MS. . It was previously exhibited in the Poydras Corridor Sculpture Exhibition in New Orleans, with support from the Helis Foundation and Sculpture for New Orleans.
It was commissioned for the permanent collection of the Kenner Sculpture Garden in New Orleans, The sculpture is made of twelve identical 42" high welded aluminum modules fabricated from 3" x 3" hollow tubes . The sculpture was painted after fabrication, prior to Installation.
Top left is Froebel's Gifts: Blue Circuit, 2018, 18' x 8'x 7' , on loan to the Ohr 0Keefe Museum in Biloxi, MS. . It was previously exhibited in the Poydras Corridor Sculpture Exhibition in New Orleans, with support from the Helis Foundation and Sculpture for New Orleans.
BACKGROUND AND DEVELOPMENT
" To Froebel belongs the credit for finding the true nature of play and regulating it to lead naturally into work. The same spontaneity and joy, the same freedom and serenity that characterise the plays of childhood are realised in all human activity. The gifts and occupations are the living connection which makes both play and work expressions of the same creative activity. " W N Hailmann
Artist's Statement: " Friedrich Froebel was the founder of the modern kindergarten in 1838. He designed basic geometric forms (sphere, cube, cylinder, pyramid) for children to play with, believing it would increase their ability to think abstractly. Learning that Frank Lloyd Wright and Buckminster Fuller played with these as children stimulated me to create Broken Cube (pictured on left) an asymetric geometric form, and use it as a module for building large structures. "
Artist's Statement: " Friedrich Froebel was the founder of the modern kindergarten in 1838. He designed basic geometric forms (sphere, cube, cylinder, pyramid) for children to play with, believing it would increase their ability to think abstractly. Learning that Frank Lloyd Wright and Buckminster Fuller played with these as children stimulated me to create Broken Cube (pictured on left) an asymetric geometric form, and use it as a module for building large structures. "
Linear installation of modules